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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