Re: Close button on Single Window Utilities

FROM : Bill Cheeseman
DATE : Mon Nov 18 23:47:01 2002

on 02-11-18 4:52 PM, Mike O'Connor at <email_removed> wrote:

> On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 12:30  PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
>
>> On Monday, Nov 18, 2002, at 18:19 Europe/Prague, matt neuburg wrote:
>>
>>>> Closing a window should never ever to quit the
>>>> application as a "side effect".
>>>
>>> Uh-huh. And iCal doesn't exist, Process Viewer doesn't exist, Key
>>> Caps doesn't exist...
>>
>> That Apple does not make particularly user-friendly and
>> standards-conforming UI is a news for you?
>
> And it isn't consistent. Why doesn't System Preferences quit when you
> close its window? Apple needs a clear guideline on when to do this (or
> not) and it should follow it itself.

It seems like the standard on Mac OS 9 and earlier was that Control Panels
quit when their window was closed, and applications did not (thinking back
to the days when Control Panels were not applications). Mostly, the Mac OS X
apps that quit when you close their window seem to fit that mold, more or
less. But by that standard, System Preferences clearly should quit when its
window is closed.

The application I would most like to STOP quitting when its window is closed
is Apple Help Viewer.

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