Linux desktop manager Close Window is dangerous.

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 01:12:20 UTC 2007


On 8/28/07, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 27, 2007, at 16:38 , Brad Fuller wrote:
>
> > Before I dig into this, I bet someone has already investigated this
> > and
> > decided it can't be done. When you close the Squeak with the desktop
> > manager's "Close Window" (the "X"), squeak closes without a
> > confirmation
> > dialog. Windows has an "Are you sure?" and I expect the Mac version
> > does too.
> > Why not Linux?
>
> It would add considerably to the complexity of the X11 VM - Xlib does
> not provide a dialog box call, whereas Win and Mac libraries do.
>

Would it be possible to send an event/message back to the VM so that the
image could pop up a Morphic-based dialog box?

Michael.
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