[Bf-committers] quit. menu

Martin Poirier bf-committers@blender.org
Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:19:46 -0700 (PDT)


I'm talking about replacing the Quit menu with this: 
http://www.clubinfo.bdeb.qc.ca/~theeth/Temp/quitmenu.jpg

It's a 2 min job, and that includes finding where that
damn menu is called (in a different spot then the
rest, of course).

Martin

--- Tom <surgeprotector@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Are you talking about a global setting? Hm - either
> way, a global 
> setting might not be such a bad idea - each user
> could decide which way 
> works best.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> Martin Poirier wrote:
> 
> >Or just have two options to the Quit menu, the
> first
> >one beeing Cancel (the default), the second one
> being
> >Confirm.
> >
> >Martin
> >
> >--- Tom <surgeprotector@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>If I'm not mistaken, this issue has come up
> before.
> >>Oddly, you can 
> >>activate quit using Q only when editing a mesh.
> >>Unfortunately, q is 
> >>right next to the w-key, which is used to access a
> >>number of different 
> >>functions - several of which require hitting enter
> >>or clicking OK to 
> >>confirm. This is not good, since the same thing
> can
> >>happen. In my 
> >>opinion, quitting should not be so easy, as there
> is
> >>too much at risk. 
> >>Inadvertently quitting while editing a mesh means
> >>you've lost any 
> >>changes you've made. One thing I've mentioned
> before
> >>is to perhaps give 
> >>blender the same functionality as most other apps
> -
> >>if a file been 
> >>modified since the last save, ask the user if
> he/she
> >>wants to save the 
> >>changes before quitting. I'm not sure what ever
> >>happened with this.
> >>
> >>Jim
> >>
> >>Campbell Barton wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Hi, at the risk of sounding pettie I have a
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>suggestion.
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Thats is the Ctrl+Q be removed, and not activate
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>the quit menu. keep Q 
> >>    
> >>
> >>>alone for quit
> >>>
> >>>The resion being that the Qkey is next to the
> Wkey
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>and when in a fast 
> >>    
> >>
> >>>workflow its possible to hit    Ctrl+Q, Enter
> >>>without realizing that you are quitting rather
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>then saving.
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I have probably only dont this 2-3 times (I use
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>blender every day) but 
> >>    
> >>
> >>>its still a pain when it happes.
> >>>
> >>>- Cam
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