Totally Agree
On 11/16/06, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 16:05 +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote: > 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? Cf. <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144107> -- m -- Mariano Suárez-Alvarez http://www.gnome.org/~mariano _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
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