[Xastir] Are you sure on Exit.... V1.2.1

[Jerry Chamberlin]

Put an option in config


On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Tom Robson wrote:
> 
> > Any chance of putting the annoying...  <are you sure on exit> dialog back in?
> > Just killed xastir by a stupid mouseclick mistake.... (of course now lost all
> > the current data)
> 
> That's kind'a funny.  I was the one that originally put that "Are
> you sure?" dialog in.  I got blasted because it wasn't very "Unixy".
> The reason I put it in there was because I sometimes accidentally
> closed an Xastir instance when I didn't mean to, sometimes in the
> middle of a longish test that caused me to start the whole test over
> again.
> 
> I later succumbed to peer pressure and took it back out.  You're the
> first to complain about its absence.
> 
> FWIW:  I don't tend to accidentally close Xastir instances much
> anymore.  Perhaps I'm getting slower as I age, and have more time to
> think before I get to that menu option?
> 
> Since some people really despised that dialog, another option might
> be to bury it under another level, so that you can't exit from the
> main menu level?  In that case it'd be like the Configure menu
> entry, where you go to another submenu.  The submenu would only have
> "Exit" on it.  It'd take slightly more in the way of mouse actions
> to get there.
> 
> -- 
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