Re: "Close" on last window causes "exit"

Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Thu, 6 May 1999 05:57:30 +0000 ( )


Even though opening a new window might be more innovative, it is
inconsistant with the programs operating on the same platforms. On X11,
people expect to have the app close when the last window is closed, ditto
with Windows, so it would really confuse users to do it differently. Maybe
there should be an option in the preferences?

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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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