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

On 2009-05-01 at 09:17:09 [+0200], Matt <laceysnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/5/2 Rob Judd <haiqu@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Fredrik Holmqvist wrote:
> >>
> >> 2009/4/30 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>>
> >>> I even managed to press the wrong button in the shutdown dialog - 
> >>> there is just no way to protect against senility :-)
> >>> I don't like the timeout requesters at all - the timeout (60 seconds 
> >>> in Ubuntu, and even more in OS X IIRC) itself makes no sense to me. 
> >>> At least not more than in any other confirmation requester.
> >>
> >> I don't understand why we'd want the OS to try and 'protect' the user 
> >> from shutdown.
> >> The apps should do the warning/handling if they have unsaved data.
> >>
> >> With the warning (think of a popup clip) it will be this on shutdown: 
> >> "Hey I'm your friendly OS, do you really want to shutdown?" "Hey I'm 
> >> your email, do you really want to save?"
> >> "Hey I'm your editor, do you really want to save?" "Hey I'm Firefox, 
> >> do you really want to close those tabs?"
> >
> > I'm from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, would you like a job?
> 
> "It'll be my pleasure to shut down this system for you"
> 
> Peronsally I find I think the single dialog is the better approach, if 
> you're shutting down anyway you don't generally mind just hitting enter 
> as you walk away. What gets me at the moment is vim not allowing me to 
> shutdown until I've quite all instances. I hate apps from stopping me 
> shutting down the system, if I've got unsaved work and I OK'd the dialog 
> box it's my own fault.

No way!! :-) The alerts to save your work are a feature. Why take it away 
just because we have some ports (Firefox, VLC, vim as you say?) that for 
some reason out of my grasp of understanding cannot get this simple thing 
right?

Best regards,
-Stephan

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