xfwm4: how to kill apps _safely_

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Jan Eidtmann schrieb:

>hello xfce developers,
>i'm still missing a kill option in xfwm4 like right-click on close kills
>the app. i don't like using xkill or a terminal to kill the app, so here
>comes a safer approach (it's not my idea, it's how gnome 2.10
>(metacity(?)) handles it):
>
>when the application does not respond to the close command, an dialog
>box is telling you that the application doesn't respond and asks you if
>you wanna kill the app or not. this happens after a timeout of 3 or 4
>seconds after the user clicked the close button and the app did not
>close.
>i think that shouldn't be hard to implement nor will it add bloat to
>xfwm4. it would just be a great plus for the useability of xfce4. imo.
>
>what do you think about this?
>cheers, cmak :)
>  
>
Hi Jan.

That would be a good thing to have indeed. You have my vote.
But I am none of the developers ...

Regards,
Jannis