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From: deke@ee.rochester.edu (Dikran Kassabian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Power-Off message to Apps
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.144819.4913@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 14:48:19 GMT
References: <6694@portia.Stanford.EDU> <12846@polya.Stanford.EDU> <5844@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <1989Nov17.132842.14140@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <5673@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: deke@ee.rochester.edu (Dikran Kassabian)
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering
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In <5673@ubc-cs.UUCP> morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca writes:
>In <1989Nov17.132842.14140@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>In <5844@lindy.Stanford.EDU> liemandt@lindy.Stanford.EDU writes:

Too many people talking.  My ears hurt.

>>>When I quit, I should get the yes,no, cancel dialog for each window of
>>>each app with changes.  I can save only the ones I want.
>
>No, please no. I can't stand any more dialog boxes. When I want to log out I 
>want to log out. Period. Personally, I'd be happier if the logout dialog box 
>went away altogether. 

I agree with both of you.  I don't want a ton of dialog boxes, but I want
them at the write time (pun intended :-).  If I have no applications with 
unsaved changes, please just log me out, no questions asked.  If there's 
stuff that may need saving, give me (the option to have) a dialog box popped 
up for each.

>Having an option sounds reasonable. And while we're at it, how about an 
>option for click to type, window coverage, window-to-top, etc, etc.?

Oh yeah, definitely.  It annoys me that I don't seem to have the option of
making a partially covered window have input (that is, keyboard) focus.  I'm
very used to having whatever window my mouse occupies as my current window,
regardless of whether or not it is fully exposed.  If there's a way to do this,
please let me know.

Here's another gripe:  Why does WriteNow want to put a regular file in the
top level of my home directory?  I established my own dictionary, and now
there is a file called WNDictionary.wndict at my top level.  Why not an
"invisible" .wndict file?  Why not in a .NeXT directory?  I object to having
an application write visible files at my top level.  I try hard to keep my
top level organized as directories only.

Complaints aside, I love those NeXTs!


      ^Deke Kassabian,   deke@ee.rochester.edu   or   ur-valhalla!deke
   Univ of Rochester, Dept of EE, Rochester, NY 14627     (+1 716-275-3106)