Re: Re: GPE/matchb

From: Philip Blundell <philb.a.t.gnu.org>
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 08:26:16 EDT

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 13:17, Luis Oliveira wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 03:31, Robert Mibus wrote:
> > The best ideas I've come up with so far to keep *everyone* happy:
> > * hide-on-close, popup only on button press or no-other-windows-exist
> > - icky, have to sit in a loop waiting for other windows to close,
> > etc.
> > * 'send to back' on close
> > - what if it's the only app (logout maybe??)
> > - mallum will still probably thing it's evil :D
>
> Why couldn't it just ask the user if he's sure he wants to exit?

That kind of thing is infuriating for users. ("Of course I want to
exit, why else would I have clicked on the exit button?")

> Hmm... yet another tab? Don't you like my idea of having a dock app
> similar to what we have in the top left corner with matchbox?

This seems like a fine idea, but someone has to write the application.
Are you volunteering?

p.
Received on Mon Sep 02 12:26:24 2002

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