[cap-talk] origin of the power box

[Bill Frantz]

marc.d.stiegler at hp.com (Stiegler, Marc D) on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 wrote:

>How about the "kill this application
>dead button, I don't care what the application thinks of the plan"
>button also planned for the powerbar? Normally we think of the windowing
>system as the servant of the app, but with the
>kill-with-extreme-prejudice button, we see that the app is the servant
>of whoever owns and implements that button.

Well, OS/X universally available Apple Menu has the "Force Quit..." menu
item.  It performs a Unix-style "Kill" operation.  (I don't know if
applications can catch the "kill" signal it uses.)  However it is quite
effective at getting rid of hung applications.  Is it part of the
windowing system, being in a menu that is grand-fathered into every
application?

Cheers - Bill
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