{"id":1365,"date":"2006-11-29T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/log-out\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T11:27:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T15:27:04","slug":"log-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/log-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Log Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arno.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/design-of-mac-os-x-shutdown-feature.html\">Arno Gourdol<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2006\/november#wed-29-gourdol_shutdown\">John Gruber<\/a>):\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arno.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/design-of-mac-os-x-shutdown-feature.html\">\r\n<p>\r\nOur dear Senior VP insisted that it should have a keyboard shortcut, and that shortcut should be <i>Command + Q<\/i>, the same keyboard shortcut you use to quit applications. I mean, how often do you logout that you need a keyboard shorctut for it? But if you&rsquo;re going to pick a shortcut, <i>Command + Q<\/i> is a terrible shortcut, because it&rsquo;s way too easy to get the context wrong, not realize that the Finder is the frontmost application, instead of, say, Safari and logout when you meant to Quit. For a while, we had some internal builds implemented that way. I tried to argue we should <b>not<\/b> have a keyboard shortcut for Logout, but since NextStep had one, it was a very difficult argument to win. So instead, I convinced our dear Sr VP that it would be even better if we picked a keyboard shortcut so that from any application, without having to switch to the Finder first, you could log out.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arno Gourdol (via John Gruber): Our dear Senior VP insisted that it should have a keyboard shortcut, and that shortcut should be Command + Q, the same keyboard shortcut you use to quit applications. I mean, how often do you logout that you need a keyboard shorctut for it? But if you&rsquo;re going to pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}