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I'm certainly impressed that the Canonical team are thinking about UI issues in this much depth. It is admittedly FAR more thought than I've ever given to the
by bmelton 16y ago
I'm certainly impressed that the Canonical team are thinking about UI issues in this much depth. It is admittedly FAR more thought than I've ever given to the 'Quit' command, ever.
And while my initial thought is that there are much more important UI/UX issues to be solved in Ubuntu before this, I think that thinking of things like this are key in fixing the global UI altogether.
I'm not entirely certain of whether or not this is the best suggestion though. I LIKE to quit applications. I like knowing that they aren't running in the background, that they aren't consuming resources, that they aren't going to pop up a notification, that they aren't cluttering up my taskbar. I'm the same way with browser tabs -- I don't like having any more open than I need.
If I'm in the middle of something, and need to have a lot of tabs open, I'll generally open a new browser for my casual browsing that I can close when I'm finished. Conversely, I almost always keep Photoshop open, even if it's idle, because launching it takes more than a couple of seconds. I don't know if getting rid of quit is exactly what I'm looking for.
- DanI-S 16y agoI feel the same way as you do - I like to feel my system is clean and uncluttered. However, I still agree with their thoughts. We may like quitting applications, but realistically, memory/CPU management is something that can and should be handled by the OS. It's an overhead on the user's mind that can be dealt with perfectly well by clever automation. It should keep itself clean without needing our help. A kid growing up in a world without the 'quit' button would not feel anything is missing; we've just been conditioned by the creaky operating systems of our own youth.
- bmelton 16y agoI don't necessarily disagree. Most of my complaints are systems of the existing broken paradigm. That my taskbar is cluttered up could easily be fixed with their suggestions, and a part of their remedy might even be to get rid of the taskbar altogether. The proof is in the putting, and with conceptual changes like this, I'm leery of judging before I see the actual results. For the most part, backgrounded running applications don't take up resources unless they're supposed to (like music playing, or an uptime monitor, etc.) so I don't have any qualms about leaving that to the OS (unless they screw it up,) but all the other visual aspects need to be dealt with at the same time for this to be effective.
- scott_s 16y agoI quit applications because open applications leave UI remnants laying around. If they can figure out a way to do the Right Thing with the UI, then it wouldn't bother me.