On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:05, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > Mac UI experts generally consider this a tradeoff. On the one hand, > you are more likely to forget about an app after closing all windows > and leave it running when you don't mean to. On the other hand, the > model has the advantage that you can open a new document after closing > the last one. Partly, this is to make up for the fact that launching > the app again can be slow. > > On the Mac, many single-window utility apps do actually quit when you > close their window, in recognition of this tradeoff. Actually, I thought I read somewhere (Cocoa docs? HIG? I don't remember) that multi-document apps are supposed to *not* quit when you close the last window, while single-window apps are supposed to?.. (Although, then, one wonders why the system preferences app doesn't quit when you close the window.) At any rate, this sounds like a reasonable guideline. > Right. If I were designing the model for GNOME, I'd leave out the > concept of "running app with no open windows". I'd probably also want > to make the panel more dock-like, although it could be hard to do this > while properly integrating legacy apps. Yeah, I have the feeling that, unless one accepts that there are going to be ugly inconsistencies with legacy apps, it might be impossible to fix this issue properly. :-/ -- Ettore
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