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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: quit/close was: User Interface Standards
From:       zander () microweb ! nl
Date:       1999-09-15 9:51:16
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> A short summary:
> - Close closes the document (NOT window).
>   If an app. doesn't support a resulting "grey window"
>   => leave Close away from the file-menu.
>   Is this ok for you?

I think you should close the document and open an empty one
for this, don't take away functionality the user expects.


> - Quit does the same as the X-Button:
>   closing the window. It's in the hand of the
>   developer to quit the application after closing
>   it's window(s).

I wanted a application quit. Closing a bunch of windows. 
This is a Windows thing. 
But is seems you changed my opinion, in a world where the
distinction between different windows of the same application
is to big (multiple desktops etc.) 

I vote for this as well.

> 
>   Note: if you have an app. like gimp with a
>   main-window and several sub-windows => closing
>   the main-window results in closing the subwindows.
>   (imitation of an Multiple Document Interface).
> 
>   Ok?

Yep.
> 
> I discuss about this Close/Quit now about for 2 months - it would be
> great, if we could finish it before the 21st century ;-)
> 

Anyone want to cancel the obove statements? 
if no -> finished. ;-)



ps: reading it again;
in Windows there is a application screen which contains its windows.
Kinda like the screens used on amiga. We have abandoned that behaviour 
some time ago. This brought on my confusion.

ps2:
> 
> I'm wondering: Unix is the only OS, where this Exit was invented. The
> Mac, Windows, Amiga, ST, ... - no desktop needed that.

Funny, looking at windows/amiga/mac programs I see they all use a "program
with loads a windows" approuch. All these applications have a Close and a
Exit (also named quit).

There is no distiction between exit and quit on your side is there??

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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
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