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Bug 226432 - confirm closing/exiting main evolution window
confirm closing/exiting main evolution window
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Shell
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other other
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
evolution[kill-bonobo]
: 235874 237135 302026 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-18 19:33 UTC by David Hoover
Modified: 2010-08-12 14:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description David Hoover 2002-06-18 19:33:21 UTC
As much as I normally hate this sort of thing, it might be a nice touch to
make Evolution prompts to make sure you meant to close the main window
(with a checkbox to say "Never ask me again, you stupid computer" for most
people, of course)

Normally these are obnoxious, but I (and other people; I've seen mail about
it on various lists) have sawfish focus problems periodically, where it
doesn't catch that you've moved to another window. This seems to more often
than not bite me when I move my cursor from evolution to another window,
and hit my keyboard shortcut to close it, and wind up killing evolution by
mistake.

I would ocassionaly do the same thing with Galeon, but fortunately that now
prompts if you're killing a window with multiple tabs, which made me think
to file this.

So this isn't a really critical issue, and most people probably would
disable the feature, but I figured I'd ask, just in case someone thought it
was worth doing.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2004-09-04 02:17:31 UTC
*** bug 237135 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-04-27 13:24:05 UTC
*** Bug 302026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-03-30 15:03:56 UTC
*** Bug 235874 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 André Klapper 2006-07-05 11:11:01 UTC
guess this won't happen within the next time, contributions welcome.
Comment 5 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:31:11 UTC
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 6 Matthew Barnes 2010-08-12 14:36:18 UTC
Not worth implementing this if most people won't want it.  I don't.