Re: [Usability]Keeping the Quit menu item

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 20Mar2003 09:44AM (+0100), Per Cederberg wrote:
> 
> Not only that. Traditionally each application has it's own top level
> menu on the Mac. This menu bar stays even though all windows are
> closed. So in Mac OS X they have at least two ways of showing a
> running application.
> 
> In classic Mac OS there was only the menu bar change, which sometimes
> was very subtle. I remember it causing me much frustration no being
> able to free memory from applications although I had closed all their
> windows... It wasn't so obvious the first time...

I'm not sure I like the Mac OS "feature" of an application continuing
to run after all windows are closed. It certainly took a long time to
get used to. But I don't think it's an essential part of an
app-centric model.

Regards,

Maciej