Re: oops i just quit

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From: Chris Devers
Subject: Re: oops i just quit
Date: 15:05 on 24 Jun 2006
On 24 Jun 2006, at 9:28 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:

> cdevers@xxxxx.xxx (Chris Devers):
>>> Surely someone's written a Haxie (err, APE plugin) to require CMD-Q
>>> CMD-Q within double-click-time? No? Damn, I don't have time...
>
>> Better still, someone found a way to do it without requiring Haxies.
>
> (example that only works with Safari)

Well, yes, but fixing just that one example removed, say, 80% of my own
frustration over that particular behavior. It's still bad elsewhere, but
if say Mail goes away because of cmd+q instead of cmd+w, getting back to
where I had been is much easier & less painful to manage...

> Software that makes applications have different behaviour for basic  
> user
> interface actions is hateful. I don't care whether it's GNU  
> Readline or
> OCDEV Taboo or gtk+ or the lowly "alias rm rm -i", it's hateful.

But applications already behave differently. Throwing up a "are you sure
you meant to quit" dialog before imploding seems much less hateful than
simply allowing it to happen, and other applications -- Terminal, to  
pick
just one -- already have this capability built in, where it won't allow
you to quit if you have processes running unless you tell it to do so.

>> (To steal a phrase, if the problem is UI stupidity, and the answer
>> seems to be a haxie, you don't have a solution, you have two  
>> problems.)
>
> Calling the frobber that changes the UI behaviour a "Haxie" or a  
> "Plugin"
> doesn't change the fact that it's a second problem. If the plugin  
> makes
> different applications behave differently, it's a third problem.

Well, right. I was more getting at the fact that, in my experience with
my own computer and with helping other people with theirs, installing  
APE
to run Haxies is a sure way to destabilize an otherwise working  
computer.


-- 
Chris Devers
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