[Vm-dev] Fwd: Linux desktop manager Close Window is dangerous.

[John M McIntosh]

How is this different than sending an event type 5 (window event)
with a subtype of 2 (WindowEventClose)

Well unless the idea is that you can close the main squeak window and  
squeak will keep running.


On Aug 29, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Ian Piumarta wrote:

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>> From: vm-dev-owner at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> Date: August 29, 2007 7:42:47 AM PDT
>> To: piumarta at gmail.com
>> Subject: Re: Linux desktop manager Close Window is dangerous.
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>> From: Ian Piumarta <piumarta at gmail.com>
>> Date: August 29, 2007 7:50:53 AM PDT
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak- 
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>> Cc: Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion <vm- 
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>> Subject: Re: Linux desktop manager Close Window is dangerous.
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>> This patch disables the title bar quit button (iff your window  
>> manager participates in the WM_DELETE_WINDOW protocol) and causes  
>> an event of type 6 to be sent to the image (in response to which  
>> it should pop open the 'save changes before quit' dialogue -- an  
>> SEP).
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>> If (1) several people report that this adequately addresses the  
>> issue and (2) nobody else has claimed event type 6, then I'll  
>> commit the changes and move the event type definition into sq.h  
>> next to the others.
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>> <quit.diff.gz>
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