[Adium-devl] [potential bikeshed] Quit confirmation

[Eric Richie]

On 9/22/07 3:37 PM, "Augie Fackler" <lists at durin42.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Sorry in advance, http://green.bikeshed.com/, but I really feel this
> needs to come up before 1.2 gets frozen.

Couple weeks late to the party are we? ;)

> 
> The new "show confirmation before quit by default" behavior should
> change. Adium is the *only* app on my system out of many (I've used
> 38 different apps this week according to Spotlight) that has such a
> dialog. As such, I feel it's not Mac-like and violates the spirit of
> the Mac user experience.

I'm not quite sure why this violates the spirit of the Mac user experience.
The rationality behind it is that an IM client is a communication medium and
as such something that most people keep open.  Therefore I implemented this
feature to prevent accidental quits.  This behavior is pretty much a
standard in Windows IM clients (yes, I know that doesn't help prove that
it's mac like behavior.)  I'm still not sure how this will negatively impact
the experience though because if you tell it not to show again you won't
ever see it after that.
 
> Honestly, I think this is something that should have a checkbox if
> people really want it.

This was my initial plan but there was some bristling on devl about the idea
of a pref so I opted to make it hidden.  I also had planned on leaving it
disabled initially but after some discussion we decided (because of the
aforementioned option to never see it again) that turning it on by default
would be a better way to handle it.
 
> That's my 2¢ - if nobody objects, I'll rip it out next weekend.

I would be ok with simply changing the pref from a 1 to a 0 but I would put
up a fight over "ripping it out".  I think this is something useful and has
been requested by a number of other people.

-Eric