Re: [Redux] Re: [Usability]sft+ctl+w v. ctl+q

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:46:03AM -0500, Dave Bordoley wrote:
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> The origin of the quit item is most likely the original macos. The point
> of the menu entry was to provide a quick way to free memory. Quit is
> really a rather unneeded menu item on the computers which we can expect
> gnome to be used on. I very comfortably run it on 450 mhz machine with
> all the bells and whistles. Quit needs to be killed off (and i should
> mention that in the draft hig there is mention of this).
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A quick comment on this since it caught the eyes of both Calum and Alan:

I don't recall the problem solved by Quit being a lack of computing power in
the hardware.  I think the problem was the design of the OS that made use of
that hardware - that it could not multi-task well enough.

I could be completely off here. Would someone please ask someone who knows
for sure?


Cheers,
A Busy with School Greg