161495 - Change "Quit" to "Quit All" on filemenu to avoid inadvertent exits of Mozilla

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Steven Neil Groginsky]

Win98se

Change "Quit" to "Quit All" on filemenu to avoid inadvertent exits of Mozilla.
There is a problem with the File menu with Mozilla users (including me)
confusing "Quit" with "Close".  I am glad that Close and Quit are physically
separated on the File menu - that helps.

I am sad about reading that no text changes will be made, read in a bug posting.
 I would suggest changing the wording of "Quit" to "Quit All" and hope that an
exception might be made.

Thanks.

Comment 1

[Malcolm Rowe]

This is sort-of a duplicate/related to bug 39639, since that seems to be about 
renaming the Quit menu item now.

Comment 2

[timeless]

Yuck. fwiw I have File>Exit, so i suspect you're using QuickLaunch.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

IMO, "Quit All" is only marginally, because it doesn't make clear that it also
exits other Mozilla-based apps. It should be "Quit/Exit <appname>", if we want
to part from the guideline (which says just "Exit" or "Quit", I think).

FYI: That's what I did in Beonex Communicator. The next release should say "Quit
Communicator" (or s/Quit/Exit/), without keyboard shortcut, now on non-Mac
platforms.

Confirming, although there might be another bug overing it and despite the fact
that mpt probably wants to have fun WONTFIXing it.

Comment 4

[Ramon Casha]

Related to this is the shortcut (ctrl-q). In many other applications, at least
here on Linux, that shortcut closes the current top-level window - if the user
has opened other windows for the same application, they won't be closed. It's
very confusing when, in a few applications the same key closes *all* windows. At
least, Netscape should have an option which allows the user to configure the
quit function to either close all windows or only the current one. The "close"
functionality would remain as a function to close the current tab.

Comment 5

[Jackson Fox]

Wanted to mention that "Quit" is in the position generally reserved for "Close" 
in other browsers/applications.  When closing a window I am accustomed to 
choosing the last option on the file menu.  When *all* my browser windows 
close, it's usually a nasty shock.

Comment 6

[timeless]

uid is being phased out.

Comment 7

[James Helferty]

Rather than just renaming the quit message, is there any possible way that we
could have an option to completely disable the display of the quit/exit option
in all menus?  I, for one, am always using Mozilla Quicklaunch, and therefor
have absolutely no use for a Quit option whatsoever.  (Except maybe whenever I'm
trying to fill out a long and complex form on a webpage and want to lose all of
my hard work by closing another loaded browser with alt-f -> up-arrow -> enter..)

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning obsolete bugs to their respective Seamonkey owners (i.e. nobody). 
If you want this fixed for Firefox, change the Product and Component accordingly
and reassign back to me.

Comment 9

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".

Comment 10

[:Hb]

Label is "Exit" only because QuickLaunch was dropped from SM. Bug 65121 comment 1 has further references to this discussion.

The "Exit <appname>" solution from Ben in comment 3 looks fine.