[LAD] Feature requests: add JackSession support

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 08:10:09AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> the lack of quit-without-save is a decision that i was opposed to, but
>> accepted precisely because it has the potential to interfere with
>> developer's internal architecture. most applications these days ask if
>> you attempt to quit without saving (some will even treat the window
>> manager close button as a trigger for this). quit-without-save
>> (potentially) requires a new code path that circumvents whatever
>> internal logic the program has to decide whether to ask the user.
>
> It requires nothing new, just calling the existing code that is linked
> to the 'Just Quit' button (using Ardour as an example).

sure, which right now is not a separate function at all, but merely a
branch of the "finish" function. not exactly a huge amount of work to
split it out, but indicative of the complete (and understandable)
design assumption "there's no way to get here except via the GUI".

otoh, you're right, in the sense that quit-WITH-save is even more
complex, and faces all the same issues with threading etc, only more
so because it actually has data to save etc. etc.