[Qgis-user] Opening QGIS more than one time on OSX

[Andreas Neumann]

 Hi all,

 Thank you all for your input. Seems to be that the mid-term goal should 
 be to allow the opening of several projects while in the short-term, 
 people can use one of the workarounds discussed here.

 Thanks,
 Andreas

 On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:47:11 -0600, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> Opening an app more than once is not normal, and not the correct way
> to open multiple windows/projects for an app on OS X.  The app must 
> be
> designed to open multiple projects if that behavior is desired.
>
> Different application document model on OS X.  I'd rather not promote
> hacks like this, it might confuse OS X users (ie. you get an icon in
> the Dock for each app instance, not normal).
>
> On Dec 18, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Linux or Windows you can easily open QGIS several times, e.g. to 
>> see more than one project side by side. Unfortunately, on OSX, this is 
>> not so easy.
>>
>> I came across 
>> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/25275/how-to-open-two-projects-at-once-in-one-qgis-window 
>> - suggesting to start it again from the command line with "open -n 
>> /Applications/QGIS.app/" - however, since many OSX users do not know 
>> about the command line - is there a more user friendly trick to open 
>> QGIS a second or third time?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andreas
>>
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