Closing apps

Tilman Baumann tilman at baumann.name
Mon Nov 26 14:56:27 CET 2007


Eric van Horssen wrote:
> Jay Vaughan wrote:
>>> i guess i know what you're thinking of: making the power button 
>>> something which
>>> messes up semantics.
>>>
>>
>> i believe that any computer must be turned on or off, and that this 
>> function is distinct from actual use.  i don't think merging 
>> functionality into the power button is doing anything but en-bloating 
>> a very, very primal function of the system.
>>
> 
> I'm sorry Jay but you must have missed something in the computerworld...
> 
> ever since I changed my AT motherboard for an ATX, the powerbutton got 
>  a new function.
> 
> Or if I want the old function, I have to press it for 4 seconds?

And that's not only computers. My Nokia Phone (very un-smart just phone 
brick) also has multiple functions on the 'power putton'.

Pressing the button is used for changing profiles or silence the phone.
Pressing it for serval seconds does a poweroff.

And this phone has dozends of buttons, not only two...

> Still I agree with you and I, as a palm user, feel much the same as 
> Shawn. Why do I need to close an app?

I think this question leads to something...
Question is. Can we do this with standard Linux apps without breaking 
anything?



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