[OT] command line and GUI eqivalent

[kitts]

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 01:45 IST, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > I cannot recollect precisely. You may experiment with the parameters or
> > lookup google. :-)
>
> The values are documented as part of the KApplication class:
> http://tinyurl.com/y6a2tw
>
> the first value is ShutdownConfirm, the second is ShutdownType and the
> last one is ShutdownMode
>
> A comination which might be good for your use case could be
> 0 0 0
> (no confirmation, no shutdown/logout only, schedule shutdown)
>
> or
>
> 0 0 2
> (no confirmation, no shutdown/logout only, force now)
>
> It could be (not sure though) that the last value is not important once
> you say "logout only" for the second option.

Thanks for that input Kevin. I am reminded of an old discussion on the need 
for better documentation of dcop calls and explanation of parameters being 
offerred by tools like kdcop.

Anyway, the point i am looking at is why is it so wrong to use the standard 
linux shutdown command from a terminal? The command should automatically 
cause each application to exit. wrong?

The only thing i can think of is that kde probably requires that running 
processes are exited in a particular order which is not maintained when 
using the standard shutdown command.

Im just curious to know. I have a good number of friends and colleagues whom 
i have convinced into using linux & kde as their OS. Many of them have had 
been linux users many years ago. They are not very accustomed to using the 
GUI and hence continue to use the CLI for tasks that have their GUI 
alternates.

The CLI shutdown causes problems with applications not shutting down 
properly. Another problem faced is with manual CLI mounting of removable 
media. The media gets mounted at 2 points causing occasional corruption.
-- 
Cheers!
kitts
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