RE: My Little Wish List for Gnome

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

I dont think it is a kill. I snagged the rpms off the ftp server, installed
it all, set up enlightenment.... bla bla bla....
When I run gmc by itself, if I hit the close button, only the window goes
away, but if i start up gmc with --nowindow if I hit the close button, gmc
goes down.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Havoc Pennington [SMTP:rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu]
> Sent:	Sunday, December 20, 1998 8:13 PM
> To:	Robert Soros
> Subject:	Re: My Little Wish List for Gnome
> 
> 
> On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Robert Soros wrote:
> > 
> > Unfortunately my windowmanager kills the process, which is not good at
> > all :(  Correct me if I'm wrong though, cannot apps be coded so the
> > parent window will only have a delete_window  event attached to them,
> > overriding the window manager's kill_process scheme ? I would hope so,
> > because If I'm asking this question now, your going to have a lot more
> > people asking why their desktop icons are disappearing in the future. 
> > 
> 
> No there's really nothing a program can do about a kill, that's the main
> point of it, so you can kill an app that's out of control.  This is just
> broken on the window manager end.
> 
> Most window managers are reasonable about this, aren't they? I would
> expect them to send delete event from the standard window manager
> decorations.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
> 
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