Re: My Little Wish List for Gnome

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Robert Soros wrote:
> ---Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Robert Soros wrote:
> > > 	2) GMC is coming along very nicely! I'm impressed, but one little
> > > silly thing that I do a lot of the time, I kill the GMC window to
> > > get rid of it. Unfortunately, the desktop icons and everything else
> > > that goes with gmc disappears as well. This is a bad thing IMHO. The
> > > desktop icons should stay there during the entire gnome session.
> > >
> > 
> > Maybe your window manager kills the process instead of sending a
> > "delete window" event - the desktop icons are supposed to remain. Try
> > choosing the Close menu item instead... in WindowMaker for example,
> > you would kill the whole process if you chose Kill from the window
> > menu, but the X button only closes the window.
> 
> 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.

You can't stop a kill, but there is a MWM hint for not displaying a kill
button.  Most modern window managers (including FVWM), and all
GNOME-compliant window managers make use of this hint.  Setting this hint
in gmc should make it a little more newbie-safe.


-Gleef