Re: [Usability] Re: Bluescreens

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> I would rather not have to do that.
> One of the great things about OS X is that
> force-quitting an application doens't affect the
> system as a whole. I can kill off a frozen app and
> keep going.
>
> By the way, here's something I've been thinking of
> raising for a while -- shouldn't the key combination
> that restarts X (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) show a
> confirmation dialog first. It's a hard combination to
> hit by accident, but it's a potentially destructive
> action all the same.
>
>  
If you hit the "close" button on a genuinely frozen app, metacity will 
kill it for you with a warning dialog.

We can't show a warning dialog since the X-server implements these key 
strokes and doesn't ask any other apps about it.  Also, 
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is designed to handle cases where the entire X-server 
is locked up; in these cases a warning dialog could only cause 
frustration and heartache.

-Rob