Re: Logic behind CLOSE and EXIT.

[Karl EICHWALDER <ke gnu franken de>]

Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> writes:

|   Why not? In a document-centric approach you work on documents.

Okay, that's not the way I do my work.  YMMV.

|   Open them and close them as you need. Here the document is in the
|   centre and the application only makes it possible to alter the
|   documents.  Think of it as say reading books. You open the book read
|   some pages then close it. Or writing in a log, open - edit - close.

But, dear book, don't disappear back to the library.  Dear book, stay on
the top of my desk as long as I don't take you back to the library.

More seriously: Okay, gnumeric starts relatively quick, but think of
other applications: Netscape, Acroread.

Choosing CLOSE but performing EXIT gives suprise to the user; that's a
bad programming style -- never impose suprise.  If you insist CLOSING
the last document should EXIT the application, gray out CLOSE and make
it obvious to the user that an EXIT will happen at this point!

If the user wants to exit, he will choose EXIT -- why is this so
difficult?

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