[Xastir] Confirm on Exit
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Fri May 15 13:26:03 EDT 2009
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:53:01PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <tom at tomh.us> flavor, containing:
> Maybe the best solution is to remove the uptime clock so users don't
> have an artificial need to keep the program running. </sarcasm>
>
> In all seriousness, an exit confirmation would be a nice feature. I
> don't close xastir often enough for it to become a nuisance.
The feature was there years ago, and was removed after much user input.
Perhaps if it were merely an option one could select or deselect in the config
menu...
> On Thursday, May 14, 2009, Tom, ve7did <ve7did at dccnet.com> wrote:
> > Would it be possible to put the "Are You Sure" when exiting the program. ??I recall it was in there many versions ago. ??I have exited the program a couple of times over the past couple of years when not paying attention to what I was doing by being half a sleep or something. ??It is maddening when you have had the uptime for a few (or more) months then mistakenly kill the program. ??One of the nice things about linux/xastir is that it will keep running for a very long time (bragging rights over Windows...) providing the user (me) doesn't do something stupid.
> > I'm sure others have done it by mistake at times.
> >
> > --
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> > 73 de Tom, ??ve7did
> >
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