WIBN: Delayed Close
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Dalek Dave wrote:
That's a good idea for a Squid!
NEVER call a Marine a Squid. :) We are the proud, the few, etc.. There's a reason there's so few of us the one's that aren't dead are crazy. :)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
That's a good idea for a Squid!
NEVER call a Marine a Squid. :) We are the proud, the few, etc.. There's a reason there's so few of us the one's that aren't dead are crazy. :)
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
However, the suspended state may require hard drive space (to sort of hybernate the application)
I don't see that as an issue when a 2TB drive is under $100 USD
aspdotnetdev wrote:
may slow things down a bit.
Disk swapping is fairly fast and I reckon the app's particulars could be swapped in and out as needed. I don't think it would take as long as starting up the app loading in the last project (or whatever it takes to get back to where you were) and doing whatever else is involved.
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I was thinking more that the slowness of the hard drive would be the issue rather than the space taken up. Having 2GB of RAM get stored to the hard drive could take a good amount of time, especially if the user just wants to close. But, yeah, it could be a useful feature so the user could avoid having to manually get the application back in the same state it was before quitting.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
My apologies, Cabbagehead!
That's Jarhead to you kind sir and an OohRa.
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Except you almost never want to go through that extra step, and forcing it each time would be cumbersome. The delay mechanism prevents the user from having to click that dialog, but it also gives them an opportunity to change their mind in the event they didn't mean to click close (like what just happened to me with Outlook). Granted, it's usually never a big deal, but I would welcome such a feature.
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You are right but it would be even better if, after you click OK on the message, it waited 30secs and popped up another dialog "Are you sure now?". :)
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I was in 16th N London Scouts. Buffalo Patrol.
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Let me guess, you also "don't have no need for no stinkin' recycle bin!"
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Today's "wouldn't it be nice" is brought to you by Outlook. Wouldn't it be nice if, when you clicked the "X" on a application, it minimized for 30 seconds (to, say, the area next to the system tray) and then closed, giving you the opportunity to cancel the close?
Can't you just use older Microprocessors like Celeron or something and run windows vista on them with 128 KB of RAM. That will give you more than 30 seconds of delay :~
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I was thinking more that the slowness of the hard drive would be the issue rather than the space taken up. Having 2GB of RAM get stored to the hard drive could take a good amount of time, especially if the user just wants to close. But, yeah, it could be a useful feature so the user could avoid having to manually get the application back in the same state it was before quitting.
Kind of a moot point as M$ has so many other things to take care of first, like quietly burying Vista, a big pile of steaming caca they want to find a hole to put it in and cover it up before something else happens.
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Today's "wouldn't it be nice" is brought to you by Outlook. Wouldn't it be nice if, when you clicked the "X" on a application, it minimized for 30 seconds (to, say, the area next to the system tray) and then closed, giving you the opportunity to cancel the close?
Sounds like the wrong solution to a different problem entirely. I get these all the time from our customers as suggestions, they come out of left field and make no sense until you really get to the heart of the actual problem and then it's easily resolved by something much simpler and more elegant.
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Today's "wouldn't it be nice" is brought to you by Outlook. Wouldn't it be nice if, when you clicked the "X" on a application, it minimized for 30 seconds (to, say, the area next to the system tray) and then closed, giving you the opportunity to cancel the close?
"F" that. The only time I click that X is when I'm shutting down to go home. You're not making me wait 30 extra seconds to hit the door!
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"F" that. The only time I click that X is when I'm shutting down to go home. You're not making me wait 30 extra seconds to hit the door!
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Dave KreskowiakSo the "close bar" (where all apps that are about to close are kept) might also have an X on it, to immediately close all the apps you just requested close. Or you just let the shutdown signal cause everything to shutdown. Or you disable the close bar and let the rest of us have it! :)
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Today's "wouldn't it be nice" is brought to you by Outlook. Wouldn't it be nice if, when you clicked the "X" on a application, it minimized for 30 seconds (to, say, the area next to the system tray) and then closed, giving you the opportunity to cancel the close?
Just get a 3 year old computer with 256 MB of ram. Everything will take at least 30 seconds to close then.
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Computers are supposed to obey humans. Immediately. The thought of a computer waiting just in case I did not actually mean to tell it to do what I just I told it to do irks me.
Eduardo León
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Can't you just use older Microprocessors like Celeron or something and run windows vista on them with 128 KB of RAM. That will give you more than 30 seconds of delay :~
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So the "close bar" (where all apps that are about to close are kept) might also have an X on it, to immediately close all the apps you just requested close. Or you just let the shutdown signal cause everything to shutdown. Or you disable the close bar and let the rest of us have it! :)
Great. Just what the world needs. A more confusing user interface...
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