Re: An AppleScript to start an SVN Server on boot
Re: An AppleScript to start an SVN Server on boot
- Subject: Re: An AppleScript to start an SVN Server on boot
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:44:09 -0400
On Mar 15, 2012, at 1:50 AM, Shane Stanley wrote:
> On 15/03/2012, at 2:13 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
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>> And iOS doesn't auto quit apps. All your apps stay memory resident until there is no memory to run them. You double click on the home button and you can switch to the apps. But It's the opposite approach.
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> I think you'll find it's the same thing happening under the hood. When you quit an app, the memory isn't all released unless needed, but marked as inactive -- it's been that way for ages. That's why second launch is always quicker.
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>> Mac Apps are mostly document based, while most iOS ones aren't.
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> But auto-termination only happens when there are no documents open.
And when the app is not frontmost. As I stated, I have apps open that have no documents open. Apple's allowed this for decades.
>> Quitting an app's GUI on a non memory constrained environment while there is a boatload of free RAM available is actually penalizing the user by not showing the app's GUI while the app is still memory resident AND is in its smallest memory requirement state.
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> In practice, I don't think that's the case. The potential annoyance is the inability to command-tab to them. But if you have plenty of memory, an auto-terminated app like TextEdit will relaunch in a trice.
That's exactly the case. I just verified it yesterday at the Apple store. But I do not want the application to launch again. I want it to NOT QUIT in the first place. The annoyance is that if the app is not in the dock, you can not auto tab to it, you must nav to it and reopen it and then wait for it to launch. This is not an optimal solution when if the app did not quit, response would be instant.
The relaunch took 3 seconds for TextEdit from the dock on the iMac at the AppleStore yesterday.
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>> It's a "my way or the highway" approach that is not the pleasant Mac experience we've come to expect.
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> You're kidding right? It's "my way or the highway" has been the Apple approach forever. Remember the end of floppy drives? Or little things like the ability to have both arrows at the one end of a scroll bar? Or more on-topic, the elimination of AppleScript Studio?
The issue is that Apple is violating their own precedents and established standards and mode of behaviour that they declared for the past decade with disregard for their install base's user's expectations and workflows. They haven't diverged so drastically from their own previous standards that I can remember. At least not on OS X.
> Behavior changes with every OS release, for better or worse. It's one thing to say you don't like some of the Lion changes -- you're not alone -- but it's fantasy to suggest this is something new.
It is new. This drastic a set of changes from the prior version I haven't seen on OS X since it's existed. I've been using these macs for the past 26 years.
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