[haiku-development] Re: The ways of Reboot. Acknowledge or not?

Quoth Johannes Wischert <johanneswi@xxxxxxxxx>,
...
> How about simply automaticaly saving the "state" of the application so
> the text editor would open up again with all the text it had open
> before shutdown etc... So everything would get saved in the state it
> is in some temporary file and the original version would remain
> unchanged. That would not work for every application but for most of
> them...

Right, in fact an application must do that, if a significant
amount of time is to be invested prior to final save, and it
doesn't have much to do with system shut down, which is far from
the most common cause of loss of unsaved work.

Ideally, there would be no need to make shutdown such a big deal.
Just have the "Shut Down ..." menu item bring up a little notice:

  Why such a big deal?
  Just turn off the power switch
   when you have finished.

        Donn

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