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Old 08-19-2014, 12:39 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
There's no guarantee that that trying to save a file as book-1.epub would work
And if it doesn't work, the program should not automatically close. It should display an error message and give the user a chance to react, not gleefully trash his work in silence.

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
what you are suggesting would leave the user with no way to quit the program short of force killing it.
Except, of course, to go through Save As to save it elsewhere, or explicitly opt to Close Without Saving...both of which are options that exist.

All I'm really asking is that, in a very general sense, "close when jobs finish" should give the user a chance to respond to any errors generated by those jobs before closing. If there are none, great! Go ahead and close silently! But if there are...odds are that the user needs to know about those errors, so they should be notified and have a chance to react. That's not asking for a lot, and I don't get why you're stomping off in a huff over it.
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