Re: [Freeciv-Dev] bug in freeciv 1.8.0?

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 May 1999, Lalo Martins wrote:
> On May 06, solomon javitt decided to present us with:
> > Whenever I try to close the help  window the client closes and
> > disconnects from the server? Is this a bug or a problem with
> > my game?
> 
> This is the extreme stupidity of the Athena widget set. If you
> close the window by using the window manager's "close" button,
> Athena doesn't know how to handle it and closes the whole
> program. I heard a fix was implemented for some other window?

No.  

If the window manager sends a close window request to the application, athena
can handle it and close that window.  This was done for the city dialogs, and
a while back I added it to most of other windows.

If the window manager severs the application's connection to the X server, the
application will die, just as any program using Gtk, Qt or raw Xlib will.

The problem is people with poorly configured window managers which have a kill
application button.  They are used to using single window applications and
don't realise that any program with multiple windows will die when they try
and close one.