[Adium-devl] [potential bikeshed] Quit confirmation

[Eric Richie]

On 9/22/07 4:32 PM, "Evan Schoenberg" <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:

> Quoting Zachary West <zacwest at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On 9/22/07, bgannin <disposable at infinitenexus.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I believe "not Mac-like" is not exactly likely going forward -
>>> http://www.tuaw.com/2006/08/14/all-the-little-things-safari-quit-dialogue/
>>> - brian 'bgannin' ganninger
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Well, we do ask to confirm unviewed content or unfinished file transfers. I
>> guess that's the parallel.
> 
> Confirming on unviewed content and unfinished file transfers with an
> option not to do so again is definitely the right behavior.  quitting
> is really only destructive, in general, with logging off.  How about a
> DTRT behavior:
>   * Logging off: Show a confirm on quit, with an option not to show again.
>   * Logging on: Hidden preference, off by default.

Or what if we had a check for an open message window?  It would be the exact
parallel of the safari dialog and thus completely "mac-like".  That way you
could prevent quitting when you might be having a conversation with a single
person (thus never receiving an unviewed content message because the window
is in the foreground).

-Eric