"BCS" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Are you saying you never make mistakes? There are program out there that > 90% of the time when I hit the x button it was a mistake and in that cases > I think it to be a good design to work around it.
?? Not only can I honestly say I've never had that problem, but I find the whole idea of it very strange. Are you certain that your mouse or window manager isn't just acting up? > I guess if you really hate having it not kill the app then the program > could just not /have/ a x button. > You've got to be kidding me, that would be just as bad. Why would I want to have a program get rid of the standard "exit" mechanism? Whever I come across an app like that, the first thing I do is open the task manager and kill it, and then immediately uninstall it. > > Your missing my point. I don't want to re-task the button but make it not > do something that most of the time is not what I want. > In this particular case, that's exactly the same thing. It's the "close"/"exit" button. If it doesn't "close"/"exit" then it's been re-tasked. Either to "minimize to tray" or to "noop" or whatever.
