Re: your mail

[Spauldo da Hippie <spauldo kda attmil ne jp>]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 gnome-list-admin@gnome.org wrote:

> > I meant it should list programs that when started would show up in
> > <alt>+<tab>. Perhaps I missed something, but I was under the impression
> > that the original post was regarding programs that would eventually be
> > shown....
> 
> It was, but the goal was to kill them before they are shown. For example,
> suppose the launch buttons for gnome-terminal and Netscape are right next
> to each other, and you accidentally hit Netscape. Netscape will take a
> while to load, and once it is loaded you could kill it with it's own close
> button, so having an applet that kills it would be unnecessary. But if
> the applet could show you the program before it opens you could kill it
> without having to wait all that time for it to load.

I know nothing about GNOME's internals, but perhaps this can be
implemented somehow in the launcher?  Right click (or middle click, or
shift click, whatever) the launcher button that you just clicked, and it
closes the last thing it opened.  I dunno how difficult this would be to
implement, but I think it would be logical UI-wise.  Perhaps you could
just have the launcher keep track of the PID of the last program each
button opened, and send a SIGTERM or SIGKILL to it.

spauldo