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Chris Wilson (notgary) has assigned this bug to you for unity in Ubuntu:

This bug report is about the Quit option listed under the context menu
for all running programs in the Unity shell.

I will start with examples:

 * Choosing Quit with Rhythmbox will close the main window, but the process continues to run. (The indicator provides a duplicate Quit option that does the right thing, but even if that was merged with the existing Quit option it would not be a sustainable solution).
 * I have Dropbox running in the background, and Unity has cleverly added it to the launcher panel with its indicator menu available. Choosing Quit does nothing, because Dropbox is a daemon with no toplevel windows.

>From the looks of it, Unity is just closing every window attached to the
application's process and wrongly assumes this will cause it to quit. In
fact, that often does not happen, and it is a very strange, semantically
unclear behaviour.

Desired solution:
- Do the right thing by sending the _process_ a QUIT signal. If a GUI app doesn't handle that signal properly, that is its problem and it should be fixed there.

** Affects: ayatana-design
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: John Lea (johnlea)
         Status: Fix Committed

** Affects: hundredpapercuts
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja)
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: unity
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: udo udp
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Launcher - Quit does not actually quit applications
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616447
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