When logging out from Gnome is is reasonably common to see applications suddenly appear on the screen which had previously been hidden (minimised or on a different workspace). These applications don't usually get a chance to fully re-draw their windows but the whole think looks a mess and a bit unprofessional.
To me, ideally, if an application is not going to prompt to save unsaved work it should exit silently without reappearing on the screen. Do people agree with this? Looking into the technical details I reckon the reason this happens is because the window manager quits before the application(s) concerned. As the window manager manages things like desktops and the minimised state, as soon as it exists, all application windows get mapped. If my understanding is correct, what we would ideally do is to arrange things so the window manager is recogised as that and not just another application in the session so it can be kept alive until all the other applications (except the session manager) have quit. This should look cleaner and more professional. What do people think? Steve. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
