Re: RGSG

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Pfab <pfab@thales.sai.mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
To: effugas@best.com <effugas@best.com>
Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: RGSG


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>"Dan Kaminsky" <effugas@best.com> wrote:
>>I will ask my test subjects this question:  "If you press quit, and the
>>application has unsaved files in memory, should it ask you if it should
save
>>them or should it destroy your work?"  Oh boy I wonder what the response
>>will be ;-)
>
>Would rather give me $100 or $1000 ?
>
>Your question has a least two problems:
>
>  a) The difference between memory and harddisk is a complete
>     miracles to new users.


Fair.  How does this question sound?

"Suppose you could have your word processing program act however you wanted
it to.  Lets say you pressed 'quit', but forgot to save your work to the
hard drive.  Do you want the word processing program to warn you that you
haven't saved your work and ask you which files you wish to save?  Or should
the program ignore unsaved work in favor of proceeding with what you told it
to do, which was 'quit'?"

I actually plan to ask this.  I'm not sure what in there is bias and what in
there is just plain description.  Help me evolve this into an askable
question?

>  b) There are more possibilites to what happens on quit.
>     I can think about 4 right now.


Irrelevant.  I was responding to those who said "Quit or Exit should just
send a SIGKILL."