Summary of NWI -- the page

[Matthew Woehlke]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/NWI
>> Default options for non-FAI containers:
> 
> I have some comments here, need to re-check the thread. More later. 
> (Hopefully not too /much/ later ;-).)

Oy. On re-reading the thread, I think the problem here is just that 
"app" is really confusing (unfortunately) in this context :-(.

I rewrote this in a way that I can understand it; I don't think I 
changed any of your intent (with one exception), but...

The one change I did make is to remove the "not-FAI" part. Any reason 
FAI should behave differently? (Do we need this configurable 
per-container? I think my preference is to not do that.)

Okay... from a technical standpoint the WM and app have to cooperate for 
'close document' (it may be possible for the WM to accept the key combo 
and decide if it should send the app a close document or close window 
signal, which would be ideal; better integration with non-KDE apps, less 
  app code needs to change), but then ctrl-w can't be used :-(. I think 
I'd rather have something like win-w for WM and NWI-integrated apps can 
still use ctrl-w (and non-well-integrated just ignore the NWI options 
what to do on ctrl-w).

What about quit app? I rewrote it as almost 'killall <app name>'. 
Currently it's up to the app to implement this, but come to think of it, 
it may be possible for the WM to do it, which might make it more 
consistent (but I think wouldn't actually quit apps that don't go away 
when all their windows are closed, e.g. systray apps). I think it might 
be better to declare this out of scope of the WM.

>> [ ] closing document closes "its" application if there are sibling 
>> instances of that application within the container<br>

Okay... this makes no sense. Why would I want the application to quit 
because I have more than one window open? I can't figure out any way to 
interpret this that isn't confusing and/or unexpected/undesired.

>> * close topmost container (not counting desktop)

Isn't that "log off"? ;-)

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

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