287524 - Use general excepted Close and Exit options and places in File menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216853

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Ger Teunis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0+

Currently Thunderbird is not intuitive regarding closing windows and exiting
application.
Child windows have an "Exit Application" on the bottom of the File menu where
new user expects a "Close window option" (called exit).
New users will think the application crashed/closed itself while they think they
closed the Compose window. (almost all of applications place a close window at
the button of the file menu/first menu)

I would suggest:
1. The removal of the Close option in the File menu of the main window.
2. Make Exit in the 'child windows' close the 'child window' and remove the
Close button.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This issue has been addressed on the other bug, on which you also commented.
Please refrain from creating duplicates, and instead ask for the other bug to be
reopened. For discussion of your problem by a developer, see bug 216853 comment 6. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216853 ***

Comment 2

[Ger Teunis]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216853 ***

Please read the comment carefully!
Comment 6 clearly states:
> "There is no bug here or the bug as originally reported has been addressed
> (File Close in msg compose does not exit the app, it simply closes the compose
> window)."

That bug reporting that File->Close was Exiting the application, thus invalid.

This bug is ONLY about the fact that Close should be removed and Exit should
close the child window.

My last comment in 216853 does also state this, but it was offtopic in the
"File->Close closed Compose Window" bug because Close works as expected.

Please reopen.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, the point is that there is no such thing as a child window. When you
read a message in a separate window, or when you have a compose window open, you
can close the main window, leaving the other window open. To close the entire
application, you need an File->Exit in that window. 

Comment 4

[Ger Teunis]

(In reply to comment #3)
> To close the entire application, you need an File->Exit in that window. 

In that case the Close application option is a wanted one. But the position
(bottom of File menu/First menu) on the Compose etc windows is confusing for new
and even experienced users.
Users expect to close the compose window when choosing the last option of the
Compose window. (I really see it happening here a lot, users closing TB while
trying to close the Compose window).