Hedley, I am an end user and use win2000. I am all in favour of having Inkscape keep running after closing the last document. The current switch-off behaviour has driven me quietly insane for so long..............There may have been a good reason for the present behaviour in the distant past but if so I've long since forgotten what it was but the current behaviour continues to irritate. Erik Hedley wrote:
Who would like Inkscape to keep running after you close a single document or the last document so that you can immediately start a new document without relaunching Inkscape? I find this behaviour very annoying and contrary to the way most document-oriented applications on all operating systems work.
MDI type applications (such as OpenOffice.org) keep a blank grey window frame open into which you can start a new document. SDI type applications (such as the open-source Notepad++ on Windows) open a new blank document when you close the last open document. Gimp keeps a small "launch" palette open when all documents are closed.
File > Close should close documents (creating a new empty document if only one document is open). File > Quit should close ALL open documents (giving you the chance to save unsaved work) and then close the Inkscape application.
The window frame should have an application-instance close [X] icon at the RH end and the menu bar should have a document close X icon at the RH end.
Refer to these bug/enhancement requests at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ that also request that Inkscape not quit when a document is closed:
#170550, open blank document on 'close' #171935, OSX Don't close the application when closing Inkscape window #171596, Reorganize UI when closing document [MDI] #170803, Close document vs. Quit program
Please post your preference to the list and identify yourself as an end-user, developer, or both, and what platforms you use Inkscape on. I am just an end-user on Windows and Ubuntu, using v. 0.46.
Regards, Hedley
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