'Context menu > Close' from a wine-app window selector (bottom panel) doesn't close all apps

[Duncan Lithgow]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

If I use the 'Context menu > Close' from bottom panel window selector it doesn't close all applications it should. Specific case:

Trying to unpack an .uif disk image I installed Magic ISO with Wine and the application eventually froze.
So I tried to close it by first clicking the top-right 'X' with no result and then the right-click menu of the window selector option 'Close' with no result.

I eventually closed the app by killing it from inside the System Monitor. I don't think this should be necessary. A solution could for example be:

* 'Window selector > Right Click > Close' could start a timer, and if the app is still running after n seconds a new gksudo window opens offering to kill the application.

[Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito)]

This should be wishlist.

Gnome offers to kill an application if it is detected as frozen for a while.

You can do it manually by adding the force-quit applet to the panel, you can then click a window to kill it.

The problem you describe is applicable when Gnome doesn't detect that an application has frozen, correct? (The window doesn't turn grey)

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

You say that if Gnome detects frozen apps the window is changed to grey (yes, I've seen that sometimes).
In that case is this bug related to how Gnome and Wine do or don't talk to each other? I don't remember any non-wine apps refusing to stop.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's not a gnome-panel issue, reassigning to wine in case that's due to it, otherwise look like not a bug

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

I would say that Gnome as the desktop environment needs to assert
control over every window it allows. Otherwise it's not actually in
control of the desktop environment. So, if for some reason wine (or any
other application) has not cleanly implemented a window then Gnome
should be able to force close it.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Is this still an issue? The latest Gnome in Hardy seems to offer to force quit even Wine applications.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

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