Subject: Re: Abiword behavioral oddity and OpenBSD
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 14:57:21 CDT
According to matthew patton <pattonme@yahoo.com>:
> I haven't done much of a looksee at the archives yet
> but why is it that when I select "close" and only have
> 1 document open the program just quits?
This has been discussed lengthly. Please read the archive of bith -user and
-dev lists before asking it again and again.
> This is incorrect UI behavior. It should open a blank document
> instead or at least blank the document area out and limit menu selection
> to New/Open/Exit etc.
It is correct. A program with no window has no meaning, neither have openning a
window when being requested to close one.
I can't
> think of a commercial document composition program
> (word processor, editor, spreadsheet, presentation,
> database) that just exits out like Abiword without the
> user specifically asking to 'quit.'
Because those program are written for GUI system that either:
-have a menu bar permanently displayed as long as the program is running
(MacOS)
-have windows inside a main window.... (MDI stupid paradigm on Windows)
Hub
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