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Programs that exit cannot be accesed through plate ui anymore #157

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. boot 
2. open Firefox
3. Choose Quit in Firefox menu
4. open another plate and Firefox again

What is the expected output? 

Firefox is tarted again

What do you see instead?

white screen

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

0.9.2

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hramr...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2010 at 11:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
You should exit the Plate UI container with the cross on top right of the 
screen, otherwise the container won't be closed and that will lead to the issue 
encountered

Original comment by tvel...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2010 at 3:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What is the purpose of the empty plate container?

It's completely useless and takes place of the application.

Original comment by hramr...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2010 at 7:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
There's no purpose at all for an empty container.

The point is that when you start an application from Plate UI application tab, 
the application will be embedded in a container. If you close the application 
but not the container, you will face the "white screen" issue you described.
If you don't want to open applications in a container, you can use "Alt+F2" 
shortcut to call terminal and open applications outside from Plate UI...

Original comment by tvel...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2010 at 12:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Of course, I can start everything from a terminal and never look back, I do 
that on my desktop as well.

The point of this report was to point out an issue with the plate UI.

It presents an abstraction where applications are sorted to the plates and 
navigating to an application either shows a previously running application or 
starts a new one. This breaks when the application is closed because the empty 
container is left behind and prevents new application from starting when the 
user nanigates to it again.

Since there is no purpose of empty container it is superfluous and should be 
removed just to clean up garbage.

Generally blank windows are useless, even traditional window managers don't 
leave empty frames behind, They dismantle their frames once the contained 
application is gone. Imagine a window manager that left the frames open and 
forced you to close them manually.

Original comment by hramr...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2010 at 8:22