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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: kghostview queries
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-10-15 16:17:13
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> Note that there is quite some misunderstanding about the term
> "application". For a user, each entry in the taskbar is a running
> application. For a programmer, each UNIX process is a running
> application. UI's are designed from a user point of view. So the term
> SDI or MDI should be determined based on how the user looks at the
> "application". The user is basically not interested in UNIX processes
> (unless your application crashes very often...) so the number of UNIX
> processes you (as a programmer) require to give the user N applications,
> is for the UI not very interesting.
> 
> As a result the UI should express itself in terms of the application and
> not in terms of the UNIX process. This means that it is very bad form a
> UI point of view to have a "Quit" which terminates all applications
> (closes all windows) of a given UNIX process. 
> 
> Instead you should only have an option which terminates a single
> application (close a single window) Whether that terminates the UNIX
> process as well depends on whether this same UNIX process hosts other
> applications at that moment. 

Very well said Waldo! This was exactly what we aggreed upon at KDE-Two.

Yours,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // KDE:  A
stable GUI for a reliable OS. 

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