Re: [Usability]Keeping the Quit menu item

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 22:22, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> >
> 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.

If "Close all the windows in this group" were a right-click option on a
group of windows in the window list, though, we might be getting
somewhere... although obviously we'd need a
non-hidden-on-right-click-menus method as well.

One crazy idea might be to have a Windows menu on each app that listed
all the open windows in all currently running instances of that app
(much like the Windows menu does in any regular MDI app, except it only
lists them for that particular instance), and have the bottom item be
"Close All These Goddamn Windows".  Wouldn't be terribly elegant in the
usual case where you only have one instance of each app open with only
one or two windows open in it though, admittedly...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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