App with multiple instances opened is shown with a single dot

[Gabriel-p]

What Happened?

If an app has more than one active instance, Dock shows a single dot below the icon thus giving no indication that multiple instances are active

Steps to Reproduce

Open two instances of an app

Expected Behavior

The number of dots should match the number of instances, up to a given max (4 maybe)

OS Version

8.x (Circe)

Session Type

Classic Session (X11, This is the default)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

Hardware Info

No response

[danirabbit]

I feel like this is better resolved by #361 personally

[Gabriel-p]

I don't see how workspaces are related to this issue

[danirabbit]

@Gabriel-p can you better explain what the use case is for wanting to see the number of open instances in the dock? Specifically, what decision does it help you make to see this?

If they were all on the same workspace you could probably just see them on that workspace no? So if you can see that you have multiple instances across workspaces would that not be functionally equivalent?

[Gabriel-p]

I sometimes need to use two or more instances of the same app opened at the same time (image viewer, Sublime Text) Having no indication of whether there is a second instance opened forces me to click on the app to check if another instance is indeed active, instead of just using the scroll wheel to go to the other instance.

It's a minor inconvenience

[Gabriel-p]

@lenemter @danirabbit there's apparently been a regression, this no longer works