Comment 8 for bug 616447
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| frizzle21 (frederik-nnaji) wrote Re: Quit does not actually quit applications | #8 |
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(Get the code!)
if it doesn't "quit", don't call it quit.
That's the law of correspondence.
Please simply correct the label to "close" wherever you know that it doesn't make the process tree of an application's pid quit.
This is already known to be valid for the quicklist "quit" entries of Rhythmbox, Empathy and Transmission.
It is clearly wrong to afford a button labeled "Quit", well knowing that it will NOT make anything quit. We're actually cheating the user, some people consider this a security issue, some might consider it an intrusion.
This is trivial, so it needs to be fixed wherever reported.
Analysing the dependency tree of a pid together with its associated frontend application and window set is a whole other task, which has nothing to do with labelling a button or list item correctly.