Re: Menu Guidelines

[Michael Rogers <banthafodder connectfree co uk>]

zinie cs unibo it wrote:
> Doesn't the 'Quit app' button imply that the user should have an idea of
> what the application is, and that he understands that the application is
> not the window he sees, but another thing behind the scenes that opens all
> these (not necessarily) similar windows with all these unrelated
> documents?

In KDE they make the distinction between 'Unix process', 'application'
and 'document', where 'application' refers to a main window and its
dialogs. They say that Ctrl-W should close the document, and Ctrl-Q
should close the application. There is no key for killing the Unix
process, because unless the process hangs all the time *coughscape*
there's no need for the user to know how many processes are running, or
which applications they correspond to.


Michael