Re: Log-out behaviour of applications

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

The dialog in gedit 3.6 was the one coming from the 2.X days. gedit
3.8 uses gtkapplication API: it inhibits log out if there are unsaved
file, but it does not use a custom dialog anymore.

Paolo

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Maciej Piechotka
<uzytkownik2 gmail com> wrote:
> I've noticed that gedit in GNOME 3.6 prevents the log out (shut down
> etc.) if it has unsaved data. While it is useful behaviour:
>
>  - It is not done by any other Gnome application I know
>  - The dialog shown by gedit is unhelpful as to choose an option one
> needs to cancel the logout, click any option (they don't seem to do
> anything after cancellation) and then close gedit (choosing to save or
> to discard changed etc.)
>
> I've checked the Gnome HID and it does not mention anything about log
> out (it looked a bit out of data as even unstable version mentioned
> gconf). Is there any standard regarding it and if not should we have one
> (disclaimer: I'm not a designer)? I guess there are several options:
>
>  - Log out should terminate all application regardless of state. The
> application themselves should autosave changes (this may be problematic
> for destructive changes such as photo editing).
>  - Log out should terminate all application regardless of state. The
> application themselves should autosave changes but not to original file
> (allowing to undo changes later)
>  - Incorporate buttons into logout dialog. ("Do you want to cancel
> download of GNOME-x.y.z.iso?")
>  - Consider it non-issue
>  - Something else?
>
> Best regards
>
>
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