Enhancement - Dragging outline to desktop icon should open in same Leo session

[Thomas Passin]

Some people launch Leo from a desktop icon.  If you have such an icon and drag'n'drop an outline on it, the outline will open in a new Leo session.  Drag another outline, get yet another Leo session.

Some programs (e.g., Notepad++ on Windows) will open dropped files in the same open session.  I'd prefer Leo to operate that way.  I don't know, programming-wise, how it's done.  I presume there's a way to search through the running processes to find Leo if it's there.  In Windows, the task manager will list a Leo session as a subordinate to a Python session, so it must be feasible somehow.

However, I wouldn't want Leo to operate entirely as a singleton program.  I find many situations where I want to be able to open a second Leo window, and I wouldn't like to give up that ability.  In those cases, though, I'm almost always launching the new Leo session from the console since I want to use different command-line parameters.

Terry Brown has some scripts in leo-editor-contrib in which he runs a leoserver server,  and clients that send code to Leo via the server to do things like import  a file for edit.  I'm wondering if some of that capability can be gotten in the way I'm describing instead, without needing to run a server.

[Edward K. Ream]

\On Monday, July 3, 2023 at 12:38:38 PM UTC-5 Thomas wrote:

Some people launch Leo from a desktop icon.  If you have such an icon and drag'n'drop an outline on it, the outline will open in a new Leo session.  Drag another outline, get yet another Leo session.

 Feel free to create an enhancement request.

Edward