ANNOUNCE: Task Manager 0.5.91 (1.0.0 beta2) -- OSes support are in

Mike Massonnet mmassonnet at gmail.com
Sun May 23 20:32:43 CEST 2010


2010/5/22 Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com>:
> Hello Mike
>
> On 5/22/10, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  @Liviu, I don't intend to switch the signals order like you suggested,
>>  I keep in mind that Terminate is the most casual option which is why
>>  it should appear first.
>>
> Thank you for letting me know. I still see merit into providing the
> options into an intuitive order. For example, here I use
> "stop/continue" most of the times on resource-hogging browsers. Next
> most useful is "kill", on miss-behaving processes. Sometimes I lower
> priorities and I almost never use "terminate". Thus I am not sure how
> straightforward it would be to come up with a most useful or casual
> option for all users. That said, this is merely an enhancement request
> and it would still be great if it stays as it is.

Fair enough, I respect you debating on the why and how, still I'm not
convinced at all this change will affect anything or anybody, might
only be an anal choice. Nonetheless, I did the change (currently in my
local git tree,) the Stop/Continue signal appears first and Kill and
Terminate after.


> Regards
> Liviu

You're welcome!
Regards

-- 
Mike



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