On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:05:46AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > colin z robertson wrote: > > > "If the window being closed is the last open window of that application > > > then the application should exit." Hmm, I'm not sure about this one at > > > all, people often want to close all their open documents before they > > > start a new one, so they'd be rather annoyed if the application closed > > > before they got the chance. > > > > True. How should this work then? Should the last close put an > > empty/blank document in the current window while other closes remove > > the window? > > I think the first case is covered by using File->New instead of > File->Close. File->Close All only makes sense when there is a global > toolbox/menu bar (Gimp), and the user can easily select File->New from > the global menu bar after using File->Close All. So I see no reason for > File->Close or File->Close All to create a new document. This is fine when there is a global menu, but where there isn't, the last close would quit the application, which I think is precisely what Calum was questioning. We could, of course, have a rule that there should always be a global menu... I think menu guidelines necessarily make a lot of assumptions about other aspects of the system, particularly windowing models. Perhaps that should be tackled first. colin _____________________________ ____ rtnl http://rational.cjb.net c z robertson ndirect co uk icq 13294163
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