Bug#311374: gedit no longer opens new files as tabs on existing instance

[Roland Turner]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.8.3-3
Severity: normal

Gedit used to open new documents as tabs on an existing gedit
instance. Since an upgrade a month or two ago, this has ceased
being the case. Even attempts to force it to do so explicitly
with --new-document appear to have no effect. This was a really
cool feature, having it back would be nice.

- Raz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.8.1-6           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gedit-common           2.8.3-3           light-weight text editor support f
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.17-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspell15            0.60.2+20050121-2 The GNU Aspell spell-checker runti
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.8.0-4           The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.8.1-2           Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.8.1-2           The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.3.2.ds1-22      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2              2.8.2-1           Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libgail-common         1.8.4-1           GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17              1.8.4-1           GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4            2.8.1-6           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.4.2-2         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.6.4-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0            2.8.1-2           The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.8.0-1           A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0     2.8.2-1           The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0   2.8.2-2           GNOME 2.2 print architecture User 
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.8.1-3           The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         2.8.4-4           The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.6.4-3           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview1.0-0  1.2.0-1           shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libice6                4.3.0.dfsg.1-13   Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2              1:2.12.2-1        libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.8.1-1           Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.7-5             lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13   X Window System Session Management
ii  libxml2                2.6.16-7          GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper           0.3.14-10         A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-13   X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.2-4         compression library - runtime

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