David Gerard wrote:
>...
> Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :
> : Too, too often I click File -> Quit when I mean to
> : "close" one window. Is there any way to:
> : 1. reorder the "File" menu to place "Close" last?
`Remove File|Exit and replace with File|Close'
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65121>.
> : 2. have "Quit" require a confirmation?
>
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39057
>
> Verified, Won'tfix.
>
> Even though it's a FECKING PAIN IN THE ARSE.
Sure is.
> (WHY the hell is close-window [Ctrl-W] right next to kill-the-app
> [Ctrl-Q] on the keyboard? Stupidest thing Apple ever let come to pass
> ...)
Yeah, that is pretty wacky. Of course, Apple didn't predict in 1983 that
several classes of application -- Web browsers and e-mail programs among
them -- would become popular where you might build up a lot of valuable
state (various URLS, e-mail messages, or chat sessions, open in multiple
windows), but where the `Save changes before closing?'-type alert was
not applicable to protect you if you quit by accident.
Nor did they predict that someone would be stupid enough to combine four
separate applications (a Web browser, an e-mail app, a Web page editor,
and a chat client) into the same executable, so that quitting one would
quit them all. (Course, they then went and did the same thing with
ClarisWorks/AppleWorks.)
But still, it was a pretty poor decision on their part to put the
shortcuts for Close and Quit right next to each other (on a QWERTY
keyboard, at least).
>...
> Have a read of bug 39057 for lots of careful, reasoned arrogance on
> the subject that doesn't actually do anything to workably solve the
> problem.
>...
Comments in a bug never do solve the problem. Bug-fixes do. Have you
fixed any of the bugs that were referenced in that bug?
There are lots of horrible solutions to the world's problems, but
generally the Mozilla Project tries to implement non-horrible solutions
instead. The non-horrible solution to this particular problem should, if
all goes well, be checked in sometime in the next few weeks.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas -- It's my job to say no.
<http://mozilla.org/>
