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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: quit/close was: User Interface Standards
From:       zander () microweb ! nl
Date:       1999-09-14 19:18:00
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> 
> CLOSE & EXIT:
> I read all comments about this topic and think it looses the focus during
> the last discussions. 

The site confuses me, some terms:
Window: is a physical window. Can contain one(zero?) or many documents. 
    More then one window can view a specific document.
Document: Simple; a file such as text, grapgic etc.
Application: An appl. can own one or more windows.

With this, close closes the document. Exit closes the application.

Unexplained:
    How do you close a window?
    What happens when you close all documents.
    What happens when you close all windows which contain a document.
    What happens when you close all windows (and depending on the answer 
     to the former question, all documents)


Solution:
    The 'X' of a window closes a window, if it is the last window to view a 
     document, close document
    if it is the last document, close (exit) program.
    
    Close a document with the close statement, close all window's which view 
    that document. But allways leave one window open, so the application doesn't 
    quit. Leave it empty or open a clean document.

    Close the application will close all windows, all documents.


Anyone care to comment on this?


--
Thomas Zander                                                zander@microweb.nl
Today, it's understood that of course you'll use a computer,
because it makes other people's lives easier -- or, more         icq: 970 00 05
accurately, it enables them to maintain their manic pace.      gpg-key:  0588D5

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