Bug 121934 - "Force quit" functionality should remember which applications took a long time to exit and wait longer for them
"Force quit" functionality should remember which applications took a long tim...
Status: NEW
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: future
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
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: 144557 381262 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2003-09-10 19:03 UTC by Keith Lea
Modified: 2009-03-28 08:26 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

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Description Keith Lea 2003-09-10 19:03:19 UTC 
Description of Problem:

Thunderbird's IMAP support isn't so good, and it
ends up taking a while for it to empty the trash
on exit. Almost every time I close Thunderbird
with the X in the corner, I am prompted whether to
force it to close or cancel, and I always press
Cancel (or it goes away on its own if Thunderbird
exits in time).

I would like Metacity to "remember" which
applications took a long time to exit and were not
"Force Quit"ted, and wait longer for those
applications to exit before asking me to Force
Quit them.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-12-07 21:20:38 UTC 
Seems reasonable. We should also just slightly lengthen the quit timeout.
Comment 2 Keith Lea 2003-12-07 21:30:05 UTC 
I think maybe it would be a good idea to act like enlarging
array-based collections does, multiplying the timeout length by 1.5
for each time the user presses Cancel for the given application, up to
a certain limit (10 or 30 seconds or something).
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2004-10-14 23:54:53 UTC 
*** Bug 144557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Elijah Newren 2004-10-14 23:57:52 UTC 
Samuli Kärkkäinen in bug 144557 suggests that the wait should also be longer
under special circumstances for the system--e.g. when the system is under heavy
load and the app has been swapped out.  Of course, detecting these kinds of
cases wouldn't be very easy...
Comment 5 Elijah Newren 2006-12-02 17:56:05 UTC 
*** Bug 381262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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