Re: Does Xcode in 10.7.x auto quit?
Re: Does Xcode in 10.7.x auto quit?
- Subject: Re: Does Xcode in 10.7.x auto quit?
- From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:21:12 -0600
On Apr 28, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
> DAMMIT. Xcode auto quits in Lion after you close all its windows and click away from the app.
>
> How the hell can we turn this off?
You can't.
> Lion is simply horribly annoying x10.
Well, I like it better. I didn't appreciate the removal of iSync at first, because at the time I was using a phone that didn't support networked contacts or calendars, but then I switched phones and got over it.
> Guys, I WANT to use the GUI of the app to open files. This is how many people actually navigate to the projects they use. Each app REMEMBERS the files and folders where the user has navigated. This is WHY we use the open dialog in applications. When we nav away from the app, we want it to be there when we get back.
Define "many." I just use the Finder and Spotlight to open files in apps. To me, the "open" command often feels like a leftover from Mac OS 6, where it was the only way to open a file without relaunching the app if multitasking wasn't turned on.
> Why are you doing this to us? This kills the user experience of using a Mac.
Because the general public has spoken: They prefer not to manually manage their computer's memory usage. You are the exception. Windows and X11 apps auto-quit once their last window has been closed, Android apps auto-quit once they've been left idle in the background for a while, and I think we all know about how iOS handles this.
So I'm willing to make an educated guess that many Mac users just left apps open all the time, then complained to Apple or third parties that their computer was now slow, since they hadn't been trained to manually manage their running apps. And unlike Mac OS 9 and earlier, the OS doesn't force users to manually manage their apps by refusing to launch new apps if memory is running low.
> Oh CRAP. I just set Xcode 4.3.1 to download the libs and documentation it doesn't have, clicked away and IT QUIT.
>
> WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
>
> My Mac has 11.22 GB of RAM free.
>
> WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
It didn't quit; it's still downloading in the background, and it will come to the foreground once you open something in Xcode from the Finder.
> IF you are to inflict this behaviour on us, PLEASE LET US TURN IT OFF.
The problem is, then there are going to be people who will complain that they can turn the feature off, especially if the method of toggling the feature is well-hidden. <http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/04/19/10295140.aspx>
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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