Re: [Usability]Keeping the Quit menu item

[Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 15:57, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 15:41, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > they're used to xterm. I use --disable-factory most of the time myself
> > for robustness.
> > 
> > A web browser could easily work either way as well, right now they all
> > work like "factory mode" but there's not any special reason why, other
> > than efficiency. If an app was fast and small enough it could easily
> > just start a new instance for each window for robustness reasons.
> 
> "For robustness reasons" is a lot of BS.  Stupid broken apps should be
> fixed, period.
> 
> I personally don't care about the Quit item.  In any case, an
> application that does not remove itself from memory some time after you
> close all its windows would be severely broken --- it may be all swapped
> out, but you may not be able to run another big application until you
> free up some VM.

Again, the photoshop example works well here. Workflow prohibits closing
big applications just because the user has closed all the windows. I
propose that the real bug is that gnome doesn't have a clear analogy of
a process. Maybe we should have a Mac OS X kind of application dock to
show users which applications are open?

> 
>   Federico
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Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>