On Mar 12, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote: Pendant?
Look. Closing the last document and clicking on the Finder quits TextEdit in Lion. Matt and Siracusa have mentioned this rather clearly. Well, it quits the GUI, but the app is still running.
So, the app is still running but its GUI isn't. That's a insanely stupid approach when there is 8 GB of RAM free.
But on every desktop operating system except for Mac OS X, closing the last window quits the application, except for apps that live in the status bar or otherwise need to run in the background. And every mobile smart device operating system except for Maemo doesn't even require users to quit apps; putting them in the background makes them stay resident until the OS needs the resources elsewhere, or until they've been idle for long enough.
Yeah, and Mac users were used to apps running this way. So until Lion, Mac OS X was the exception among all operating systems people actually used, in that it required users to manually manage their desktop apps. That's not a big deal for veterans that are used to this, but for newbies, I can see how it can become confusing, especially after they launch too many things and their computer suddenly becomes slow due to all the swapping going on. So I don't mind the change at all.
So, give us a switch to enable it or disable it in System Preferences. Don't wholesale push in changes that force users to abandon 10+ years of how they worked.
I don't want the OS trying to outthink me. I'm all grown up and can find the command Q keys. I want to be able to have an app open with no documents. Look, in Lion, the app's GUI stays open - until you click away. That's not the same as closing the last window quits the app.
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