On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 05:26:32AM +0000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> This is the point of view shared by the Macintosh HI. On a mac, closing
> the last window in an application will leave the application open. It can
> be switched to from the process menu. The problem is that on most window
> managers and on windows and BeOS there is a menubar for an application
> anchored to each window. On the mac, there is one central menubar whose
> contents reflect the current application. Therefore, on other OS's, after
> all of an app's windows have been closed it's difficult to control.
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> Unfortunately, many people are used to closing all the windows in an
> application to close this. (This happens all the time on the mac-a newbie
> will hit the close box of a netscape window to quit netscape and etc, and
> by the end of the day there are sevral apps that they are unaware of
> running and eating all their memory.
>=20
But I was thinking the suggestion is not for close to close the last
window.. but to open a "new document" window just as if you had started
abiword w/o specifying a file
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