we could do something like that....
but i expect that this is a little too geeky for my
mother and/or the church secretary....
jeff
At 01:07 AM 5/6/99 -0400, Brian E.W. Wood wrote:
>
>Maybe I'm crazy (actually I definitely am but that's another story) but:
>
>A very common scenario is that I have started AbiWord and opened a stored
>document. I wish to close that document and then open another.
>
>Right now if I close the document the program exits, even if I do not wish it
>to do so. The only time "close" does not equal "exit" is if I have multiple
>document windows open (uncommon for me at least). It would seem to be a very
>common situation to want to close an existing document and then start working
>on another.
>
>I think "close" on the last document should remove that document from the
>screen, asking to save changes if there are any, and leave me in the same
"new"
>situation that I was in when I started the program. Nothing (IMHO) should
cause
>the program to exit except an explicit order to do so.
>
>Just my $0.02 but am I alone here?
>
>Otherwise, *GREAT* work guys. AbiWord is really coming along. Looking forward
>to seeing and talking to you folks at the RedHat Expo in Raleigh, oops I mean
>Linux Expo :-)
>
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>Brian E.W. Wood beww@intac.com
>