On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:45:34 +1000 David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:26:59 +0200 Peter Parkanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have a rather annoying problem with e17 on my Gentoo box. Wait. This
> > isn't an e17 bug. This is obviously a skype bug, but skype is closed,
> > so I can't really do anything with it.
> > 
> > When I hit "Logout", "Shut Down", "Reboot", and so on in the E menu,
> > every application quits, except skype, because it only closes its main
> > window. My suggestion is that it would be good if I could set
> > somewhere to autokill specified stuff when logout, or specify a
> > timeout for logout, and if the applications doesn't quit in that
> > time, e17 autokills (not -9) them, or simply quit (if e17 starts
> > applications as children, then all of the started apps are forced to
> > quit, right?). This would be very handy.
> 
> There is already a timeout, then E17 asks the user if it's OK to kill
> everything.  This gives the user a chance to manually close down things
> properly or otherwise respond appropriately.
> 
> The "Exit" menu option does an unconditional exit.
> 
> Maybe a configuration option to unconditionally kill things after the
> timeout would do the trick?

generally i think this is a bad idea - a lot of apps will put up "are you sure
you want to exit - you haven't saved your files" dialogs. you want the user to
go handle all of these first - then logout/shutdown etc.

this is a skype specific issue due to it wanting a "system tray"
unconditionally.

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