Re: Close button on Single Window Utilities

FROM : Finlay Dobbie
DATE : Tue Nov 19 22:28:47 2002

The point is for applications which revolve around a single window
(System Preferences, along with the iApps and so on), it makes no sense
to have the application open with the main window closed. For document
based apps, this is useful, sure, but not for iApps.

  -- Finlay

On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 04:23 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:

> Whoa - here I am agreeing with Ondra about something again. Wow, weird.
>
> Being able to close all of an app's windows without quitting the app
> is a very useful feature indeed. Then, if you click the app's Dock
> icon, it brings up a new window, without your having to wait for the
> whole app to launch again. I'll bet there isn't a person on this list
> who doesn't use this ability somewhere, and most commonly, I'll bet
> you use it with your web browser - it's very convenient to leave it
> running in the background and instantly get a new browser window when
> you need one, by clicking on its icon. Can you imagine how annoying it
> would be if this were Windows and you needed to wait for OmniWeb,
> Mozilla, Chimera, or whatever browser to use to relaunch once you
> closed all its windows? And although the effect is less dramatic, this
> ability is also very useful for System Preferences, Terminal, Mail,
> etc.
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | <email_removed>
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.