Re: Logic behind CLOSE and EXIT.

[Preben Randhol <randhol pvv org>]

Rodd Clarkson <rodd@pnp.com.au> writes:

| I'm not happy with the way CLOSE and EXIT work and I believe it could be
| better.  At the moment EXIT closes all workbooks and exits gnumeric, and
| CLOSE closes a workbook, and if it happens to be the only workbook exits
| gnumeric.
| 
| I believe that CLOSE should close files and EXIT should exit gnumeric
| (after closing all files (and hopefully prompting for necessary saves). 
| CLOSE should not however close gnumeric if there is only one workbook
| open.  This would make the use of CLOSE and EXIT consist across all
| cases (one workbook open, many workbooks open (or possibly no workbooks
| open with CLOSE unavailable).

As gnumeric opens a new window for each file/worksheet it makes more
sense to me to only have the Close menu item.

That is one have several spreadsheets open and don't need to worry
about selecting Exit instead of Close by mistake. To exit Gnumeric as
you say would be to close all the windows and then one are out. It
makes for a more document-centric approach than the usual
application-centric. So you have to think in terms of "independent"
documents that you can edit rather than "one app" that opens a lot of
documents, if you get my drift.
 
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