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Bug 704672 - The 'Close' command doesn't close an open file instead it quits the whole application.
The 'Close' command doesn't close an open file instead it quits the whole app...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94091
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: GUI
1.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-07-22 11:33 UTC by 12spahn46
Modified: 2013-07-22 17:23 UTC
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Description 12spahn46 2013-07-22 11:33:33 UTC 
I'm using Gnumeric 1.12.3 on Fedora 19 and found a inaccuracy in the 'File' menu regarding the 'Close' command. If I execute this command it not only closes the open file, it also the Gnumeric application. In my opinion is this behavior a bug. The 'Close' command should only close an open file but leave the application itself open for further work. Do you agree with me?

Regards
Dieter
Comment 1 Andreas J. Guelzow 2013-07-22 13:23:50 UTC 
IF you have more than one file open, it just closes the files. When you close the last file it also quits the application. I don't see that as a bug but as the appropriate and desired behaviour.
Comment 2 Andreas J. Guelzow 2013-07-22 13:24:20 UTC 
THat should have been "it just closes the file".
Comment 3 12spahn46 2013-07-22 16:45:26 UTC 
Andreas

Just a last comment from my side about the reported problem. Please have a look at how LibreOffice handles this problem. If only one Calc file is open and I execute the Close command this file is closed, but LibreOffice stays open and offers me the choice to create a new Calc file (or Writer, Impress, etc. file). I don't know how this is handled in Excel (because I don't use proprietary software), but I guess it handles the problem in the same manner as LibreOffice. So it looks like that Gnumeric is a "one man show."

Dieter
Comment 4 Andreas J. Guelzow 2013-07-22 16:55:18 UTC 
If I close the last emacs buffer, emacs quits; if I close the last chrome tab, chrome quits. That is really the normal behaviour.

This is really related with bug #496834. If you open several files from your file manager individually you get separate processes. I doubt that as you close those files one at a time you would want to get a 'new' file each time.

LO's behaviour really only makes sense if you always have at most one Gnumeric process. (Of course applications like LO take that long to start that you really don't want them to ever have to restart.)
Comment 5 Morten Welinder 2013-07-22 17:23:34 UTC 
The current set of Gnumeric developers have long ago decided that we do
not want that behaviour.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 94091 ***