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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Quit/Close: please check site.
From:       Peter Penz <peter.penz () jk ! uni-linz ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-09-15 16:08:27
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Hi Martin!

Martin Konold wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Peter Penz wrote:
> 
> > Ok: in X-Window we don't really have a Multiple Document Interface like
> > in MS-Windows, where you have a Close. To make it short: imagine, that
> 
> X Window does have no concept of applications at all. X considers all
> windows to be equal. Some KDE applications use an MDI. (I do not like MDI)
I personally don't like MDI too. Even Microsoft goes away from it in
Office2000. Gimp also uses more than one window, but there's no problem,
because there's a recognizable "main-window" and several "sub-windows"
(drawing-areas). Closing sub-windows: no problem. Closing main-window =>
also the sub-windows are closed.

On the MAC you don't have a real MDI - there's also no Close needed.

[snip] 
> I think that people do expect that clicking on the X-Button in the windows
> decoration is destructive and does NOT cause an automatic save! If the
> programmer really thinks that he wants to save the document in this case
> he must ask for comfirmation with an Ok/Cancel modal dialog.
Didn't mean, that a X-Button should save automatically the document.
Sure: a dialog-box must appear, which asks you if you wanna save the
document. It must also appear when I press Quit (fires same action as
X-Button).

But to find back to the point: hope you'll agree that no Close is needed
:-)

How do we interact with e.g. an editor? Normally we edit a document,
save it and want to close the "§$"§ window. Some like to use Quit and
some like to use the X-Button. If somebody forgot to save the document
before => dialog-box :-) All in all: this sounds fine to me.

Bye!
Peter

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