> This seems like an unnecessary limitation of the Gnome environment. It would be nice to be able to compare your existing release to your changed copy and run

> This seems like an unnecessary limitation of the Gnome environment. It would be nice to be able to compare your existing release to your changed copy and run them side by side. This is because GNOME applications have a hybrid of Windows and OS X behaviors now, due to the addition of D-Bus activation. Applications still exit when you close the last window, but each application has a unique identifier (org.gnome.gedit, etc) and when the binary starts it will search for a running instance and tell it to activate if present.