"Close" on last window causes "exit"

Brian E.W. Wood (beww@intac.com)
Thu, 06 May 1999 01:07:09 -0400 (EDT)


Maybe I'm crazy (actually I definitely am but that's another story) but:

A very common scenario is that I have started AbiWord and opened a stored
document. I wish to close that document and then open another.

Right now if I close the document the program exits, even if I do not wish it
to do so. The only time "close" does not equal "exit" is if I have multiple
document windows open (uncommon for me at least). It would seem to be a very
common situation to want to close an existing document and then start working
on another.

I think "close" on the last document should remove that document from the
screen, asking to save changes if there are any, and leave me in the same "new"
situation that I was in when I started the program. Nothing (IMHO) should cause
the program to exit except an explicit order to do so.

Just my $0.02 but am I alone here?

Otherwise, *GREAT* work guys. AbiWord is really coming along. Looking forward
to seeing and talking to you folks at the RedHat Expo in Raleigh, oops I mean
Linux Expo :-)

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Brian E.W. Wood  beww@intac.com


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