On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 19:22 -0300, Daniel F Moisset wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 10:42, tom wrote: > > I do not contribute to this list or this project as much I would like, so I > > usually sit on my hands. I have been using Gnome as my sole desktop for couple > > of years now. > > > > Please, do not make me confirm that I really want to close the terminal every > > time. Yes, I do sometimes shoot myself in the foot, that reinforces in me the > > need to be more careful. > > > > If I lose this argument, at least tie the confirmation to the close button. If > > I type "exit", take me at my word. > > Yes, I agree completely. If you type ‘exit’ into a shell, the tab will close if the shell is in a tab, and the window will close if that was the only tab in the window. > What I think would be necessary is just adding an option (may be hidden > in gconf)to handle delete_event with a dialog. If the application > (shell) inside the terminal exists, the current behavior (close or > restart) should be kept. There is a hidden pref at /apps/gnome-terminal/global/confirm_window_close which disables the confirmation dialog. > Perhaps a smarter check could be done... assuming the terminal is > running a shell, is normally safe to close it when the shell has no > child processes. > > If running something that is not a shell, the situation is different; > for example a Profile which runs pine should not be allowed to be closed > without confirmation (unless the app exits by itself, obviously). > > I think a good solution would be having an option: > - Process in terminal is a shell > - Process in terminal is an application > - Process in terminal is not important :) > > In the first case, close from WM or menu should request confirmation > only if the shell has child processes. In the second case, always. In > the third case, never. > > If you like that proposal, I'll file it as a bug in bugzilla. This is basically undoable, as there is no way to ask processes if they are in a discardable state or not (and no amount of freedesktopy-spec-writing will 'fix' all the apps out there if a way to do this were devised) -- m -- Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar> http://www.gnome.org/~mariano
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