[Usability]Re: killing programs in taskbar

[Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu>]

Dexter Filmore wrote:
> recently wrote to this list that i can't kill programs anymore by
> right-clicking on the taskbar icon and selevt "kill" from the popup and was
> told this wasn't necessary any longer since clicking the close button had the
> same effect if the application didn't respond after 5 seconds or so.
>
> Well, this is nonsense. It takes aeons *if* it happens, often enough it won't
> at all and I have to bring up a term and ps ax and kill -9 pid manually.
> I want this feature back.

How about implementing metacity's "kill unresponsive apps" mechanism in 
the tasklist instead of adding a "kill" command to the tasklist?

I don't use metacity, and so for me, there's no way to kill an 
application without resorting to the command line or 
gnome-system-monitor.  Furthermore, it makes sense that the "close" item 
of the tasklist should do the same thing as the "close" button in metacity.