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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Thrillho:
I'm baffled by there even being a quit without saving function.
Loki:
Eh. Alt+F4 usually does the same thing - or used to, anyways.
Thrillho:
You may well be right, but I don't remember alt+F4 not still prompting to save.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 29 Oct 2014, 01:38 ---I'm baffled by there even being a quit without saving function.
--- End quote ---
It varies with the application. If you try to Cmd-Q out of a program edit, document, spreadsheet, GIMP image edit etc. then you get a dialogue asking if you really want to do that, and inviting you to save your work. Applications where the designers assumed your "state" was unimportant, often don't do this. You can of course remap the keyboard shortcuts to prevent that, but unfortunately you have to do it on an app by app basis.
The guy in the page I like above whines about Google Chrome. Google used to make you hold down Cmd-Q for a few seconds to force a quit. Many Mac veterans complained, so Google took that out. People complained about that too, so Google made it an option. Click on Chrome in the top menu-bar, and select Warn Before Quitting.
Mainly I think this is a matter of familiarity. I like being able to quit an app with a quick Cmd-Q, and I get frustrated with nanny-features pestering me to confirm what I want to do.
pwhodges:
But a controlled quit and a forced quit should really be separate functions.
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