Re: [Evolution] --force-shutdown doesn't close all Evo processes on 2.32

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 08:34 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 21:11 -0600, Matthew Barnes wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 22:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > '--force-shutdown' has always seemed to me a kludge, effectively a tacit
> > > admission that the GUI can sometimes freeze and not listen to Quit. I
> > > hope we can get to a point where it's no longer necessary. I don't see
> > > similar options for Thunderbird, Claws, Kmail, ...
> > I agree.
>
> In defense of Evolution I haven't seen a component oriented application
> that doesn't provide some escape clause [comparing Evolution to
> Thunderbird is like comparing a 2010 Toyota Prius to a 1919 Model-T Ford
> anyway; I know which I'd rather drive on the highway (and I own both)].

Hmm, I think you lost control of the analogy in there. Surely the Prius
should be safer and more reliable, especially when it comes to
braking :-)

> The question seems reasonable to me if quitting [or even killing] the
> GUI *should* stop the components since they are used by other things
> [OpenOffice, the GNOME calendar widget, etc...]

Actually one of the main uses for --force-shutdown used to be to kill
the GUI when it resolutely refused to die. Doesn't happen much nowadays
but habits die hard.

poc