On 20 June 2016 at 05:10, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...3141...> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 08:18:14PM -0600, Brynn wrote:
Hi Everyone, Just my simple thoughts :-)
I actually like the current behavior. It annoys me in GIMP, when I close a file, then I have to make another step to close the program.
Is it a big deal to close inkscape (or any other program) with a aingle click ? I admit I don't use inkscape a lot - mostly only testing that nothing has obviously broken with newer versions of other packages - but I use the gimp quite a lot, and if I edit one image there is a strong likelihood that I will edit another.
And the same for working on spreadsheets and text documents in libreoffice, so I assume that people who use inkscape heavily will edit several documents in a session, perhaps even several at one time (tweak one, make similar changes in another, etc).
Oh - I should add that the netbook where I'm replying to you has only 1GB RAM (it came with windows 7 but was never able to run that) and there I usually have things in swap, with a slow laptop disk, so yes, in that context *everything* can be slow.
My workflow is normally to load a file, edit it, close it, load another one, edit it, close it. And because a restart of the whole program takes longer than just opening another file while it's open (even on fast machines), I agree with Ken that keeping Inkscape open after the last document gets closed makes more sense.
This could be achieved by introducing a multi-document interface that has a close button for each document additionally to the window close button like it is available in many other programs like word processors or IDEs. Clicking the document close button would only close the current document, while clicking the window close button would result in closing the whole program. This allows to serve both use cases.
Sebastian