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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: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: future
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
: 144557 381262 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-10 19:03 UTC by Keith Lea
Modified: 2020-11-07 12:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


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. ***
Comment 6 André Klapper 2020-11-07 12:36:46 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all
old feature requests in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you still use metacity and if you are still requesting this feature in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity/-/issues/

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