[rekonq] quit vs. close

[Pierre Rossi]

Hi Thomas !

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 15:33, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:

> hi all,
>
> I jumped on IRC today after noticing the new way that rekonq handles its
> quit
> action.
> I talked to Felix Rohrbach about it a little and we ended up mostly
> agreeing
> but he wanted me to write an email here to at least get the Ok from Andrea
> Diamantini.
>
> The issue at hand here is that rekonq now uses the user action 'quit' to
> terminate the process and this means all windows that are open will close.
> This turns out to be something that KDE has discussed a lot quite some time
> ago and around the KDE3 time decided on the following;
>  Each main window that is opened is seen by the user as in instance of the
> application.  So if the user presses the 'rekonq' icon in the start menu he
> gets a new application showing in front of him.
>
> If the application developer decides to make all those windows reuse the
> same
> process, this will have no effect on the way that the user looks at this
> and
> therefore the process doesn't have to be the same as the 'application'.
>
> So when the user quits his window, only *that* window will be closed.
> Try most apps (dolphin for intance) in KDE, they behave this way.  You
> start 4
> dolphins, you have to call quit 4 times.
>
> I would want to suggest rekonq follows this too. Which essentially means a
> revert of commits;
> 725724b15d739233c4a8fc0cd416bf602288d4b2
> and
> d4d034967f12b31f5a6b9274ec42d4e4fe27571c
>
> As mentioned; Felix was Ok with this, I'm hoping others are too.  Let me
> know
> if its Ok to push these commits :)
>
>
> Thanks!
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Thanks for the little historical bit ! ;)

The reverting you're proposing looks sane to me ! Unless anybody is strongly
opposed to this and comes up with good arguments, I'd say go ahead and push
those.

Cheers,
--
Pierre
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