CLosing apps

[Maciej Pilichowski]

Hi,

  Maybe I put this in separate threads, we don't have too much threads 
on this ML, so why not :-).

  While going to sleep yesterday I realized it is not that easy to 
provide logical closing and being compatible with current UI, or 
maybe I miss something.

Let's say we use
ctrl-q close appp
ctrl-w close doc

Consider okular. Easy, right? Ok, let's put two okulars into GAI. 
Still easy. To be consistent when we put those into TAI we should 
have the same meaning, but "additionally" ctrl-q would mean "close 
the tab" (tab of parent-container).

But then having not okular, but konq. in those tabs. Same behaviour 
but this means we won't be compatible with current UI. Ctrl-w is 
now "close the tab".

So let's try from the other side -- TAI, all konq, ctrl-w closes the 
tab (app), ctrl-q closes the container. The same case with GAI still 
make some sense, but let's change konq. to okulars and you see it is 
impossible to close just doc, because each ctrl-w would close the 
okular (the number of apps within container would decrease).

I don't see a way (now)(*) we could do both -- be logical and keep 
backward compatibility. And even besides this -- some broken apps, 
like konq. would need fixing -- providing ability to close single doc 
(I am not saying what should happen next -- empty state or new doc 
state).

(*) one crazy idea is to change the meaning of those keys depending of 
container -- GAI or TAI, since there is no GAI now, no compatibility 
issue

Cheers,