Re: Logic behind CLOSE and EXIT.

[Karl EICHWALDER <ke gnu franken de>]

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

|   I'm not advocating that we do everything the same as windows, I
|   dont' think that or I'd still be using windows.  But windows does
|   have it's strong points, which we can learn from.

Unfortunately, you're not wrong.  One point is that it's possible to to
do most or all operations with the keyboard (they do use some weird
shortcut that GNOME can do better).  Keyboard support is essential if
you want to have success in offices; "team assistants" don't like to use
the mouse.

Also the concept of windows inside windows isn't that bad; sometimes
it bugs me a lot that I've move around to close some popup windows.  I
admit, this might be a window maganager issue.  But if an application
decides it's good to ask the user whether he wants to save his data, the
meassage box should be allowed to grap the focus (I hope, it's claer
what I want to say...).

|   Thus, having CLOSE exit shouldn't be an option.  If you want to
|   CLOSE you CLOSE and if you want to EXIT you EXIT.

You're absolutely right.  E.g., acroread behaves okay.  Even Emacs might
be okay (Emacs uses a different approach: you simply cannot close the
last buffer).

CLOSE should never EXIT.

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