[DEPRECATED] [Bug 73618] Changed - Discourage "Do you really want to exit?" dialogs when there is no data to save.

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Changed by srittau jroger in-berlin de 

--- shadow/73618	Tue Jul  1 04:59:32 2003
+++ shadow/73618.tmp.30247	Fri Jul  4 02:52:17 2003
@@ -9,26 +9,35 @@
 Priority: Normal
 Component: General
 AssignedTo: hig gnome org                            
 ReportedBy: tommi komulainen iki fi               
 TargetMilestone: ---
 URL: 
+Cc: srittau jroger in-berlin de
 Summary: Discourage "Do you really want to exit?" dialogs when there is no data to save.
 
 Being lazy I'll just paste the text from my mail.
 
 > Now, as I see it, the idea with the exit confirmation dialog is that the
 > user has the last chance to avoid losing his work or data, which in this
 > case means his best game of tetris ever.  But if there is no data to be
 > lost, is there any reason to ask for confirmation?  If not, should the
 > guidelines recommend against such confirmations?
 
-------- Additional Comments From snickell stanford edu  2002-12-22 02:47 -------
+------- Additional Comments From seth gnome org  2002-12-22 02:47 -------
 I agree with you Tommi... Further I think it would be nice if
 non-document-based-but-stateful-applications such as a Tetris game
 saved their state upon exit, similar to how they (should) currently do
 when called upon to exit with session management. This would
 completely eliminate any motivation to pop up an obnoxious "Do you
 want to exit?" alert.
 
 ------- Additional Comments From murrayc usa net  2003-04-04 05:56 -------
 So, let's add this to the HIG.
+
+------- Additional Comments From srittau jroger in-berlin de  2003-07-04 02:52 -------
+A main problem with adding this is that it seems that there's
+currently no chapter, where this fits in. While there is a section
+about save confirmation alerts in the Window chapter, I don't think
+that this is the right place to put this. (It should merely point to a
+chapter, where application exit behaviour is described.) Maybe we
+should add a chapter "Behaviour"?