SUGGESTION: Allow Multiple Application Instances
Many programs allow you to open multiple instances of the application at the same time. You generally do this by right-clicking on the application in the taskbar.
This would be a very useful feature.
I know there is the option to open a floating tab. However, the floating tab doesn't have the menu bar with the go box. Additionally, every time you open a tab from the floating window, it opens in the primary application window rather than the floating window.
It would be much better to allow multiple application instances in addition to the normal floating window functionality. Within each application instance, everything would work as it currently does.
For example, I might be working on two or three different projects for school at the same time. I could have two or three instances of Logos with a different workspace for each project. Whenever I opened a link, it would open in the window I am currently using, rather than me having to go find it and drag it back to the window I was using.
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You brought this up as an issue three years ago. I often wondered the same thing but for different reasons. Do you know if Logos has addressed this yet, because I still see the same floating window I've seen for a decade.
I use the floating window a lot. I would love to be able to have a 2nd instance of Logos running... or to have full menu bar in floating window...
Thanks for suggesting it.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
Many programs allow you to open multiple instances of the application at the same time. You generally do this by right-clicking on the application in the taskbar.
This would be a very useful feature.
I know there is the option to open a floating tab. However, the floating tab doesn't have the menu bar with the go box. Additionally, every time you open a tab from the floating window, it opens in the primary application window rather than the floating window.
It would be much better to allow multiple application instances in addition to the normal floating window functionality. Within each application instance, everything would work as it currently does.
For example, I might be working on two or three different projects for school at the same time. I could have two or three instances of Logos with a different workspace for each project. Whenever I opened a link, it would open in the window I am currently using, rather than me having to go find it and drag it back to the window I was using.
In the age of computers and many computerizers using multiple monitors, Logos is falling behind by not allowing this very needed function.
I would add... the functionality of being able to open a tab (book) in a window and dragging that tab to another monitor and thus opening up another instance of Logos...
Logos now has "open in floating window" and I make use of it... but it really doesn't work because it's like having Logos with no brains.
I hope we can get Faithlife to listen on this one.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
OK
If we all really want to see this evolve for windows and mac, single and multiple monitor setups, we probably need to vote on it.
I searched the feedback listings and could not find anything that resembled this, so I created a new entry to register interest on.
https://feedback.faithlife.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/allow-multiple-application-instances
Please vote and add your opinions what is needed. I think we are all wrestling with the limitations, though we might be approaching it from directions.
Until they add it I create two windows by flowing something and then adding to that. However, I would like to use multiple instances on iOS. With Stage Manager that would be very nice.
Dr. Kevin Purcell, Director of Missions
Brushy Mountain Baptist Association
And to add to this drama.... I don't think (as some has suggested) it is viable to expect everyone to buy both Verbum and Logos just to have multiple instances of Logos (which really are not "instances of Logos" but instances of Verbum and Logos).
What we need is to be able to run multiple instances of Logos or multiple instances of Verbum. But at the least multiple instances of Logos.
imho that is.... [8-|]
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
I do this frequently by having both Logos (beta) and Verbum (gold) open at the same time. As they have separate storage of resources, they don't interfere with each other. I can also use the web as a third occurrence for some features.
Yes, my solution is NOT optimal ... just letting you know there is an option.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
If there are challenges from two instances sharing the same storage, the same behavior could easily by recreated within one instance of Logos by:
I think you'd get some discussion on this one. I use the initial window for all searches (currently, they automatically line up in a panel) ... with resources in subsequent windows. I agree, the present logic is hit or miss.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
No thanks on the first suggestion. I use floating windows amongst other things to get screen space back. I don’t want a menu at the top taking it away.
Yes on the second suggestion. A floating window is a workspace within a workspace so resource tabs should open in that window. Taking is a step further we should have the option of creating window sets where two or more ’linked’ floating windows act together as a group.
I agree that the second bullet point would be more important than the first.
Regarding the first bullet point, you would still have the option to have the GO bar or not. Personally, I think it is nice to have the option to have the Library dropdown, for example.
MJ Can you please elaborate on how you do that with Logos and Verbum?
I want to open at least two instances, one instance with the interface in spanish, and the other instance with the interface in english, but found that I can't do it, as it has been reported in this post.
Since I've been using the software since it was Libronix, I just made the upgrade to "Funciones Bilingual 10", and then bought "Verbum 10 (Español) - Conjunto completo de funcionalidades", because it was a better way for me to obtain all the spanish datasets that were not included in "Funciones Biligual 10". I verified my account and I can download Verbum but I haven't installed it because I just want to use Logos.
So far I have to constantly change the language in settings, restart, and repeat. Or if you know of any other way to accomplish the same thing please let me know.
Sorry, I don't use any language setting other than English. I would have to try setting Logos to English and Verbum to Spanish, open them both, and see if they interfered with each other.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
Well, that's your decision to make (and it may have to do with how many GB free space are on your SSD etc.pp.) - I can confirm that Logos and Verbum can be run side by side, and thus allow for beta and stable running concurrently, and that of course one can run in English and one in another UI language and the two won't interfere.
I personally have a shortcut menu where I have the commands ready at hand to switch UI language to English and to German (just lazyness, I could easily type set uilang to en etc, but as you said, it requires a restart of Logos/Verbum to switch. Thus it's more convenient to have the two running in two different UI languages.
I sometimes forget which UI language I'm in (thankfully, English language commands most often work in German UI as well for me), but that's okay. The only relevant change to my way of working when running two instances of Logos/Verbum is that I had to train myself to upload Personal Books when I build them, so the are available in both platforms. Everything else will sync automatically (assuming not running offline).
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