[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44485] GUI: File | Exit from main menu doesn't work when Octave is busy

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #44485 (project octave):

Another thing is that AFAIU the main menu's File | Exit instruction sequence
is similar or equal to what the OS sends to Octave when e.g., shutting down.
Indeed, when I enter:

for ii=1:1000
eigs (randn (400))
endfor 

...and try to shutdown the system I get a popup that program "Octave" is
unresponsive.

In far-fetched cases (say, laptop battery nearly exhausted) having Octave
obstruct system actions is a bad idea; although I expect any OS to be able to
simply ~"kill -9" Octave.
So while I agree with Dan about consistent paths I think the main menu's
File|Exit should have absolute priority over anything that happens in the
terminal. 
It works that way when Octave is running in a rxvt or cmd32.exe terminal as
well.

A confirmation popup is a good idea.


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