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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: OS X style dock
From:       Stian =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8iland?= <stian () soiland ! no>
Date:       2004-04-30 8:50:29
Message-ID: 20040430085029.GB21567 () itea ! ntnu ! no
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On 2004-04-30 10:39:57, Rob H wrote:

> In OS X, when you close all the windows of an
> application, the application itself does not usually
> close. The application keeps running and the dock
> indicates this.
> To close the application you have to click file|quit,
> or press mac-q.

Please elaborate on the reasoning for this behaviour. Isn't it more
logical that the application stops when there is no further use
for it?

I see no practical or usability reasons for allowing this, as this would
only lead to applications standing by, eating up resources. In the
beginning, such applications could be experienced as faster for each
document loading (as the application it self is resident), but if ALL
applications behave like this, the system will be clogged up with
useless applications standing by, waiting for orders that never come.

I believe that if such an option is to be implemented, it should be the
users choice to select which applications should be like this. The user
could then turn on the feature for his most frequently used programs,
and avoid it for those used on rare occasions.

The selection of programs could be done both from the control panel
somewhere, and from the system menu of the given KDE application.

(Cons with system menu - users might be confused if such an option is
not available for non-KDE programs.  Pros: Very logical place, and
almost likely to be discovered by accident)

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