Comment 43 for bug 14838

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Billy Charlton (billy) wrote :

IMHO, the main reason this new behavio(u)r seems so broken is because windows
now close without warning. Users expect windows to close when they click on
"close", "Exit", "okay", etc.

No other application I've used closes windows without warning. This really
breaks a basic understanding of how a windowing environment works. Windows
don't close in navigational mode; nor do they close in gEdit, OpenOffice,
Firefox, etc unless it's crash.

I don't see how tweaking the corner cases of this new mode (such as fixing all
of the bugs it causes, or adding to the documentation), can fix this fundamental
breakage of contract between user and window environment.

Thus I don't think adding GUI option for this behavio(u)r is the right way to
go. The right way to fix this bug is to remove this broken mode.