Angel,
I vote for a single "Exit", "Quit" or "Close". However, we should
probably have a separate "Close Window" function. In most
applications, "Exit" and "Quit" shutdown the application. "Close" is
used less consistently.
Jonathan
On Jul 28, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Angel Herráez wrote:
> Is there a reason for having "Close" and "Exit" entries in the
> application File menu? Now I
> have two nice icons for them, a red X and an onOff red sign
> (vertical bar inside an open
> circle).
>
> Some time ago I remember discussing that both closed all Jmol
> windows, while I expected
> Close to close only the current one.
> Now I see that in the current version, both entries just close the
> current window, which
> sounds reasonable, but if they do the same we don't need both entries.
>
> How about having "Close" do a zap, no window closing, and Exit
> closing the current
> window?
> Since "New" opens a new window, not a new document (and the new
> icon clearly indicates
> that), I think that zapping would be intuitive for the user,
> although it is not needed since any
> File Open does a zap.
>
> The alternative is to just remove Close and leave Exit.
>
>
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