Re: [Usability]Keeping the Quit menu item

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

Le mer 19/03/2003 à 22:58, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:54:40PM +0100, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > > There's no user-visible concept of a process.
> > > 
> > 
> > Not that I want to be sarcastic but there is a user-visible concept of a
> > process: when an app crashes, all the windows that use its process die
> > with it. In such a case, users can see that these windows belonged to
> > the same process. And most of the time they get frustrated because they
> > don't find it logical to have windows dying because of a crash of
> > another window.
> 
> Well, by that argument all windows should be a separate process, so
> you wouldn't need a Quit menu.
> 
> But the only real conclusion here is "crashes are not
> user-explainable, and we should try to keep them from happening"
> 

Yes, I agree. I'd even say that the robustness of an app should be
proportional to the number of windows that usually share its process.
There is no worst thing than having all your work lost because of a
crash in 1 window.

> Havoc