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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: LONG: File-menu
From:       Wilke Havinga <w.k.havinga () student ! utwente ! nl>
Date:       1999-11-20 17:13:12
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> Get over it. You also had to click so many times to get them on the
> screen in the first place. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo

Okay, maybe this is an interesting idea: in WindowMaker when you click the
'close'-button (which is much like the close-button on the upper-right
corner of every KDE-window), only that window is closed.
However, when you hold the Ctrl-key while clicking it, the program (unix 
process) is 'kill -9'-ed. Very handy for programs that don't react on the
normal 'Close' command (i.e. Netscape often needs this on my computer ;).

This way you can create some extra keys for the 'poweruser', while the
normal user might never use this feature.

You might not want to 'kill -9', but at least you can close all windows of
an application (read: unix process) when Ctrl is hold.

However, I can see problems with programs that open many windows with
different filetypes (someone mentioned the picture viewer).

Let me know what you think about this.


Bye,

Wilke Havinga

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