Re: [Usability]Keeping the Quit menu item

[Jeffrey Baker <jwbaker acm org>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:21:56PM -0500, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> Joshua Adam Ginsberg wrote:
> 
> >... not to dampen the excellence of your email here, Jeffrey, but my
> >Galeon 1.3.3 has a quit item at the bottom of the file menu... also
> >activatable with Ctrl+q... does yours not?
> >
> >-jag
> >
> >On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 11:25, Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>This email is inspired by Galeon 1.3.3, which is
> >>infuriating because it lacks the Quit menu item.
> >>
> Also see http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$374 for a fairly 
> good reason why quit (among other interface cruft) is useless (and 
> fairly destructive) to the majority of users who don't care about 
> clearing HTTP Authorization passwords and discarding non-persistent 
> session cookies.

Actually MPT's article addresses exactly zero of my points.
Quit is bad because quit destroys your window layout.  So
fix Quit, don't get rid of it.  It is true that "today's
computers can run more than one program at once", but
developers of fine fine applications like Evolution,
Gnumeric, and Mozilla all work as hard as possible to make
sure that my computer can only hold one program in memory at
once.  So you sometimes want to exit them.

-jwb