58865 - Ctrl-Q exit shortcut should ask for confirmation

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39057

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephan Niemz]

In NS4 and earlier on UNIX, there is an X resource setting called `confirmExit',
which, when set to true, pops up a dialog asking for confirmation when the user
presses Alt-Q (now Ctrl-Q in Mozilla). This was very useful, since it often
happens that I accidentially hit Ctrl-Q instead of Ctrl-W to close a window.
It is very annoying when you have lots of windows open and they all disappear
at once.

IMHO this should even be the default, but making it a pref would also help. And
meybe the confirmation could be omitted if there is only one window open, since
there wouldn't be any difference between Ctrl-W and Ctrl-Q in that case.

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Confirmed. Marking this as new so someone will look at it.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

afaik, at least on win32 and Mac, when there's more than one communicator
window, i'll get a warning when i attempt to quit by either the shortcut or the
menu item. i don't seem to get that warning, however, in 4.7x on linux [but
perhaps i need to have a hidden pref set?]

in any case, i do agree with you: if there's more than one mozilla [or netscape
6] window, we should give a warning to the user.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We should definitely make sure that there is a way to turn this warning off.

A pref sounds like the easiest way, since GTK does not really do X resources...

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

dup

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

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

whoops, forgot about that earlier bug.