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From: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Closing all windows (was: YAWB1.4 Request)
Message-ID: <5227@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 89 21:15:26 GMT
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In article <22944@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
>Instead of another special key combo to remember, I still like the
>idea of having two close gadgets.  Word perfect added another gadget
>to their window which is a neat idea and I don't see why (if you like
>the idea of another gadget to do the job) another default gadget
>couldn't be added to the system code.  Just like setting a flag adds
>the current close gadget, a different flag (same flag?) would add this
>gadget.  It could look like two close gadgets, one in front of the
>other ( like the screento-back/screen-to-front gadgets).

I vote no, as this would seem to violate the (my) philosophy of when to add
a new system gadget.  I don't think that closing "parent" windows is something
that people would want to do that often, and arguably the Workbench is the
only place it would be useful (and I mean the real Workbench windows, not
private applications using the workbench screen).  In any case, it doesn't
seem worth the clutter to add such an esoteric function.  After all, we'll
probably be getting (I hope) an iconify system gadget in 1.4, we don't
want to overrun the window with system gadgets for every little thing.
From a philosophical standpoint (again) it seems like close parent windows
really is a modification of the standard close operation, and therefore
a key combination would be appropriate.

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