Am Donnerstag, den 16.11.2006, 19:00 -0300 schrieb Mariano Suárez-Alvarez: > 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>
Proposed patch attached. -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
