157069 - Bookmark editor quits whole application

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39057

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Deleted User]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002032519-SuSE

When I do Bookmarks/ManageBookmarks, and I want to close the dialog after
managing my bookmarks, I go in File/Quit -- and all mozilla windows close and
the whole app quits. damn!

Please alter the behaviour of File/Quit in the ManageBookmarks-Window!


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open mozilla
2.open Bookmarks/Manage....
3.Go to File/Quit to exit the bookmark manager.

Actual Results:  all is gone. I am sad.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Well ofcourse. Quit (or Exit) *should* quit the application. If you want to
close the window, use File -> Close (Ctrl-W).

Personally, I wouldn't put the Quit in this window, but it's necessary when the
bookmark-window is the last window of the application. It's *not* a dialogbox,
but a real window !

Comment 2

[Deleted User]

It is GUI standard that the last Entry in a File Menu quits the application, yes.
But the "application" active is the BookmarkManager -- it is a thing designed to
manage bookmarks, not to surf in the web. it is part of mozilla, but it is not
the browser.
So when I go to File/Quit in the manager I do it because I want to quit the manager.

Comment 3

[Deleted User]

When I see the BookmarkManager window, which looks quite different to a browser
window, the action I expect when doing File/Quit is NOT "Quit the browser".
It is "Quit the Manager".

I use Netscape and Mozilla for years now. But I fall into this trap every week.
I do not think that I have to change me -- the application is wrong. It is not
intuitive.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Well, I'm a Mac-person myself since 1985, and that platform has only 1 menubar,
at the top of the screen. There's always a Quit in there (for the application),
and a Closee (window-specific). In 17 years, I haven't made that error too
often, also because I prefer to close a window with Cmd-W, not the menubar.

But on a PC it's easy to make a mistake, especially if you have a small window
which looks a lot like a dialogbox. Not just Mozilla, but also other apps. It
would be a lot easier if the bookmarkwindow has a larger size by default.

Normally, this shouldn't be fixed, but I think it would help a lot when the
File->Quit in the bookmark window wasn't active when there another window open
(but then some people would file this as a bug), or when you get a warning
dialog (but then other people would file this also as a bug !).

On the other hand, on my office PC, I never use Quit anyway (or Exit as it's
called here). I always use Ctrl-W, since is always loaded in memory anyway.

Comment 5

[Robert Wall]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39057 ***

Comment 6

[Stephen Walker]

vrfy dup