Re: ANNOUNCE GWorkspace 0.6.1

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

MJ Ray wrote:
> With respect, I think it is constructive. We should double-check whether
> or not quitting GWorkspace can cause data loss and only have a "Are
> you sure?" if it does (as in the NS3.3 UI guide). Preferences are not
> something to be used every time that there is a design question to be
> asked. That leads to one hell of a mess, both in the user experiences of
> GNUstep and in trying to debug things ("attach your configuration file"
> as well as "explain what happened").
>
> I'm not convinced by the "you can quit it when you meant hide" argument. Why
> is this more of a problem for GWorkspace than other applications?

In general I agree with you, but GWorkspace is IHMO a special case if 
(and only if) quitting means logging out of the session. And I guess it 
should do that. Even if this is not linked to a potential data loss it 
is annoying to be logged out by accident. This may easily happen eg. if 
you use keyboard based navigation on a system where the window/menu 
focus is not always working as expected, such as on GNUstep :-)

Besides having such an panel does not do any harm given that you do not 
quit GWorkspace that often.

Just my $0.02...

-Phil
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