Closing a window with sys-menu / dblclick

[John]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:14:19PM -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> 
>>This was a question I was about to post. Why doesn't double-clicking
>>on the window's system menu close a window?
> 
> 
> Inexperienced or not-so-well-coordinated users often double-click when
> they mean to single-click (I see it all the time among Windows users).
> Having double-click perform an irreversible action that's radically
> different from that performed by single-click is a bad idea.
> 

Mostly, close operations are pretty harmless and those that could cause 
realistic harm - unsaved documents, terminal windows with active 
programs other than the shell could (optionally) ask for confirmation.


I lose more time responding to inane questions than I'd ever lose to 
accidentlly closing windows, including going back to when I was a 
beginner with computer rodents.

As I recall, my biggest difficulty was clicking fast enough to get a 
double-click. Even now, I configure for single-click wherever possible, 
and turn off most confirmations.

btw If a text editor (word processor or the like) has sane "open the 
last document" and "automatically save often & when closing" abilities 
then closing on a double-click without arguing is only marginally 
harmful. As is a system crash (oh dear, my battery's flat again).