On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 20:04, Jan Claeys <li...@janc.be> wrote: > Op maandag 17-05-2010 om 20:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Mark > Shuttleworth: >> Does the window manager know if closing the window will cause the app to >> quit, or just close that window? > > The window manager can only know that if the application tells it so. > Implementing this would involve standardising some new window manager > hint (or whatever it's called again), and it would take some time before > all applications implement it so that it can be considered somewhat > consistent behaviour... > >> If so, we could consider styling the close button differently, for those >> two scenarios. > > Is this really useful? > > Imagine 2 applications that implement a word processor: > * the first application opens all documents in one process > * the other application opens all documents in their own process > > Now, why would we want a different close button for those application's > windows, as there is no (obvious) functional difference in how people > use these two applications? > > > IMNSHO, *if* we really want 2 different "close" buttons, we need to find > a better definition of the 2 types of "close" first.
i understand most of your point, but what's wrong with "quit application" vs "close window" ? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
