Re: Logic behind CLOSE and EXIT.

[Rodd Clarkson <rodd pnp com au>]

Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> 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.

No, people need to be able to exit everything fast if they want to. 
EXIT makes a lot of sense if you've been working on 8 or 9 related
documents and you no longer need any of them open

> 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.

I was just thinking that a really nice way for gnumeric to work would be
to have all the files open in the same window by default (which could
always be changed) much like the application-centric approach -  which
would make sense to users coming from other spreadsheet packages (after
seeing the light ;-]) - and then to be able to drag specific workbooks
(or even worksheets) into their own window (simply by draging the tab
onto a empty part of the screen or something.)  This would create a
truely flexible spreadsheet that allows the user to work the way they
want (and need) to work.