[desktop-discuss] Re: New Gnome terminal

[Calum Benson]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 10:21 +1200, Ian Collins wrote:

> Try starting Thunderbird, Firefox and Studio from one tab, start working
> on you web application in several edit windows and browser tabs, then
> accidentally close the terminal tab.  I think you will then start
> petitioning to remove the close button!

Again, that's just a design that could be improved... on OSX for
example, you're alerted if you try to close a terminal (or terminal tab,
if you use iTerm) that still has child processes running; I'm told it
would be feasible to do the same on Solaris.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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