[desktop-discuss] Re: Re: New Gnome terminal

[Shawn Walker]

> > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 10:21 +1200, Ian Collins
> wrote:
>  
> 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.
> 
> 
> Still, thats just a band aid to cover up a initial
> broken design idea.

That's a matter of opinion. Some people prefer their buttons on each tab, others prefer one at the far right.

Regardless of whether the tab closure widget is on the far right or left, or on each tab, it is a good idea to prompt the user if we see that they still have background jobs running. I believe some shells do this normally when you do exit the first time with something like jobs still running or the like.

As far as it being a broken design, that's a matter of opinion. Whether the close widget is on each tab or there is just one at the far left or far right is a matter of preference on the part of the user. As long as there is a way for a user to indicate what they prefer, I see no problem with it.

I personally prefer one closure widget on the far right, but I know of others that prefer it on each tab. Opera is an example of an application that uses tabs but lets the user indicate which behaviour they want in this particular scenario.

-Shawn
 
 
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