Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

[Werner Almesberger]

Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> Maybe there could be a simple background process that monitors the
> running apps and decides when to close them

Wouldn't this approach the issue of getting rid of stale applications
from the wrong direction ?

How about applications maintaining persistent state and closing
themselves whenever a basic task is done or when they're idle ?

E.g., if you're writing an SMS, you proabably never want anything
but a catastrophic failure to kill that application, and even then,
you'd probably want it to resume where you left off when you recover.

Just a thought.

- Werner