Version: 4.1.1 (using KDE 4.1.1) OS: Linux Installed from: SuSE RPMs If you go back to the overview there is no exit button anywhere.
*** Bug 211307 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I was once hit by this when I had to use twm as a fallback window manager. You can move/resize/iconify windows with this goody, but it does not seem to have close buttons on windows... Exiting System Settings? Nada.
The problem is tha there is no menubar in System Settings, in violation of the KDE HIG.
System Settings deliberately has no menu bar as it is simply a waste of space. The original System Settings from KDE 3, used by Kubuntu, and designed by their developers with assistance from usability experts did not have a menu bar. See https://help.ubuntu.com/5.10/kubuntu/images/C/kubuntu-systemsettings.png Implementing an Exit button would additionally over clutter the toolbar.
> System Settings deliberately has no menu bar as it is > simply a waste of space. Can you please explain to me how the menu bar would take less space than the current row of icons? It would perform the same function, and also add an Exit button.
Switching a menu bar in to replace the toolbar would be worse.... and would still violate the HIG.... 1) the Search bar would have to be positioned in the menu bar, and would look out of place 2) more clicks would be required to go back, or configure System Settings In addition, it would complicate the user interface as it will not be immediately obvious "how to get back to the selection screen"
There is still no exit action anywhere.
SVN commit 1096082 by bcooksley: Add an exit button BUG: 171915 M +1 -0 systemsettingsui.rc WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1096082
Any application window (apart from those that steal keyboard focus like konsole) can be terminated with Ctrl-Q (Systemsettings->Standard Keyboard Shortcuts->Quit) even when window manager (like kwin) is not running or is running but does not provide any buttons. You can try this with kinfocenter (no exit action) in prior killing kwin. So it's not like there are no ways to close such windows. Ben, please consider reverting this commit (as you already pointed out it breaks HIG standards) and point users to Systemsettings->Standard Keyboard Shortcuts->Quit instead.