Re: [Usability]Keeping the Quit menu item

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley pilot msu edu>]

Calum Benson wrote:

> 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.
Yeah I think that could be an acceptable way to provide this 
functionality for user who use grouping in the window list

> 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...
>  
I think this only works on the mac because the global menubar creates a 
visual connection between similar windows. However with a menubar per 
window i think i'd find this kind of wierd.

dave