[Bf-committers] exit in blender

[Yves Poissant]

> We *always* should choose quality over convention, independent of what
> websites votes for or what "standards" big software companies forced us
> upon. If requests are popular they reveil a problem, something to
> seriously tackle, but requests never are by definition the best
> solution.
>
> So! If users accidentally lose work, let's tackle that. But don't play
> the popularity card or the standards card. These are hollow and
> manipulative arguments, only leading to mediocre solutions.

I mostly agree with your position.

But I'm not sure what is the real message behind this. Rejecting a standard 
just because it is a standard is also a hollow and manipulative argument 
especially when arguing with the "big software companies forced on us". That 
is apealing to delinquent fibre in a lot of people and it works but that is 
manipulative too. Personally, I'm sick of this 
large-corporation-conspiration argument. And arrogantly pointing at the rest 
of the word and say they are all crap and we are the smart ones who knows 
how to do it right seems just as weak. Just add yet another idiosyncrasy to 
Blender so we are different.

Standards don't need to be explained because they are standrards. If you 
need to write a manual to explain such a basic feature then this is bad 
design. Personally, I was not aware of the quit.blend file. Now I know about 
it but that is still a weak solution for several reasons. The first one is I 
have to go hunt the file in its temp folder and that needs to be explained. 
Not only the principle needs to be explained but how to find that file needs 
to be explained too. Then what if I open Blender and load the latest file to 
find out I lost my changes and then quit again? Will my quit.blend be 
overwritten by the new empty one?

Yves