+tbuckley for new shortcuts.

+desktop PWAs folks.

If this feature is implemented I don't think it should be specific to any type of app, rather a shelf feature that works for whatever the icon is a shortcut for.

I think that is the suggestion - it would be based on the position in the shelf. Unless I'm missing what you're getting at?

+omrilio and kejia 

It doesn't seem likely that this will get done for M-70? Removing label, but let me know if I'm mistaken.

Certainly not for M70 (and probably not M71 either but we can dream, so adding M71 milestone).

+1 to this suggestion. Seems consistent with both Windows and Ubuntu as far as I can remember.

This should definitely apply to all kinds of apps, not just Desktop PWAs (#6 I think Alan just mentioned specific types of apps because Dom mentioned DPWA folks directly). However, the specific meaning of "open a new instance of this app" might be quite different depending on the type of app. (And I'm not sure how Android apps would respond to this, given that Android typically only has one instance running at any given time, and there is no "New Window" item on Android app context menus.)

+Vlad who's team would likely be the ones to implement this.

Just trying to understand the use cases here - what would be the apps that you would frequently want to open new windows for?

Mainly Secure Shell, but also Chrome, Docs, Keep, text editor, etc

You could use the keyboard combos to focus the shelf, navigate to the app, then use the keyboard combo to show the context menu, then arrow key to the option to "open as window".

This isn't ideal, but if you're a keyboard only user, this will get you off the ground until we can land the feature as requested.

The proposal here seems straightforward enough and isn't conflicting with any existing keayboard shortcuts, so it sounds like a no-brainer assuming someone has bandwidth to make it happen.

I'm a bit worried about the inconsistencies this shortcut may bring - opening a new window works for certain types of apps like web apps, but it may not work for other apps like Arc++ apps. In this case, using this shortcut will produce inconsistent results.

Also, this need may largely be covered by in-app shortcuts, such as Ctrl + N in Chrome, so user can still open additional instances with keyboard only.

re #18 - I don't think in app shortcuts solve many of these cases, pretty much just Chrome. If there is no ability to open a new window of the particular app, would it be acceptable to just focus that app?

So what's the decision on this? Should we add a shortcut (if so, which)? Leave things as is?

Going back to the other apps mentioned here:

Docs: if we have a shortcut for opening a new Doc, does this mean it's actually opening a create link, something like "https://docs.google.com/document/create?usp=drive_web&ouid=xxxxxxxxx&authuser=x"

Keep: would this shortcut open the modal followed by clicking this https://screenshot.googleplex.com/96qfvGCHGbp ?

This seems like a lot of customization for different apps, making me feel this should be best handled through in-app shortcuts. We can file bug reports to developers, esp. for the ones that most need this feature. I suggest closing this bug for now.

Understood. Thank you Kejia!