Hi Thomas ! On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 15:33, Thomas Zander <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi all, > > I jumped on IRC today after noticing the new way that rekonq handles its > quit > action. > I talked to Felix Rohrbach about it a little and we ended up mostly > agreeing > but he wanted me to write an email here to at least get the Ok from Andrea > Diamantini. > > The issue at hand here is that rekonq now uses the user action 'quit' to > terminate the process and this means all windows that are open will close. > This turns out to be something that KDE has discussed a lot quite some time > ago and around the KDE3 time decided on the following; > Each main window that is opened is seen by the user as in instance of the > application. So if the user presses the 'rekonq' icon in the start menu he > gets a new application showing in front of him. > > If the application developer decides to make all those windows reuse the > same > process, this will have no effect on the way that the user looks at this > and > therefore the process doesn't have to be the same as the 'application'. > > So when the user quits his window, only *that* window will be closed. > Try most apps (dolphin for intance) in KDE, they behave this way. You > start 4 > dolphins, you have to call quit 4 times. > > I would want to suggest rekonq follows this too. Which essentially means a > revert of commits; > 725724b15d739233c4a8fc0cd416bf602288d4b2 > and > d4d034967f12b31f5a6b9274ec42d4e4fe27571c > > As mentioned; Felix was Ok with this, I'm hoping others are too. Let me > know > if its Ok to push these commits :) > > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > rekonq mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/rekonq > > Thanks for the little historical bit ! ;) The reverting you're proposing looks sane to me ! Unless anybody is strongly opposed to this and comes up with good arguments, I'd say go ahead and push those. Cheers, -- Pierre
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