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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How should tasks be killed with KDE?
From:       John Gluck <jgluckca () home ! com>
Date:       2001-10-23 17:07:44
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Hi

I just do a ps -ef and look for the process I want to kill. Admittedly if you have
a half dozen terminals open it's hard to figure out which is which.

I used enlightenment for a while and it had a nuke this darn thing type of menu
entry. I think it was in a taskbar icon kind of thing. I found it handy.

If something like this is done for KDE I would suggest that it be hidden enough so
it's not easy to hit it by accident and certainly have a confirmation message
window popup. Users would get pretty ticked if they accidently hit the app nuke
button and lost a lot of work.

John

Bryce Nesbitt wrote:

> Ok, it happens once in a while.  A task dies, leaving a dead
> window on the screen.
>
> How am I supposed to kill it with KDE?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> What would be the "right way" to do this?
>
> An extension to the KDE menu?
>         Configure
>         To Desktop
>         ----
>         Force program shutdown
>         Close window
>
> A task manager?
>
> One of those error-prone "skull & cross bones" things to kill the next window?
>
> How do we communicate that this is a "last resort", not the usual way a user
> should stop a program?
>
> And should "kill task" be available to Kiosk type users?
>
>                 -Bryce
>
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