Re: [Usability]Keeping the Quit menu item

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley pilot msu edu>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

>  
>
> > Same thing goes for my editor.  If I have 5000 buffers open
> > in emacs I can just exit the whole thing and destroy all my
> > buffers.  This is very reasonable.  Even RMS wouldn't want me
> > to have to close each buffer individually.  But you are
> > saying that a Galeon user should be forced to close each
> > Galeon window individually, regardless of the fact that some
> > of them open up all by themselves?
> >    
>
> You could have "close all windows" if you wanted to close all windows,
> as windows are a user-visible concept. You can explain "close all
> windows" using only user-visible concepts. You can't explain "quit."
>  
Well even "Close all windows" is somewhat ambiguous as it doesn't 
actually close all windows, but only a certain subset that belong to the 
specific application. I guess in theory you could add a "Close all 
browsers" menu item but that  leads to some well known interaction 
problems we're better avoiding imo.

dave