Re: App menu Help/About consistency

[Rick Opper <rickopper gmail com>]

Yes, I know... I was referring to the earlier question of whether QUIT should be in the app-menu on 
window-menu, and whether or not QUIT should totally kill the app or just close the current window - an issue 
when several browser windows are open with several tabs each and in different work spaces... 

Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 06:50 +0100, Rick Opper wrote:
> > So, an app can be kept running without any windows open then? Like on a
> > Mac where all windows are closed but not the app? In that case, the
> > app-menu would have QUIT, the window-menu would have CLOSE and SAVE, but
> > then which one would have OPEN and NEW? would NEW be split? -> NEW
> > WINDOW in app-menu, NEW DOCUMENT in window-menu?
> >
> > just being the devil's advocate... I have often quit my browser when I
> > wanted to just close the current window. I don't think that's an issue
> > with QUIT. Quit should kill the app. the X button should close the
> > window. Maybe the app should quit it's self if there are no windows
> > left...
> >
> > If we're going to have apps running with no windows then we need a way
> > for users to see what's running - as opposed to what's open. QUIT would
> > need to be both in the app-menu AND the context menu for apps in the
> > dash... or something like that...
>
> No, closing the last window of an app does not leave it running in the
> background.