dmd 2.029 release [OT]

Daniel Keep daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 20:47:43 PDT 2009



BCS wrote:
> Hello Christopher,
> 
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>  
>>> The absolute worst of all though is when an app (*cough* skype
>>> *cough*) decides that "close" and "the 'close' button" should mean
>>> "don't close anything at all, but minimize to tray instead". That
>>> should be a firing squad offense ;)
>>>
>> I'd be killing my IM client constantly if not for that feature. I
>> pretty much expect it of any application that's meant to be running
>> for a long time and only rarely needing user interaction (such as a
>> bittorrent client).
>>
> 
> yah, for some programs you rarely want to close the program but often
> want to close the UI.

This is one place where I think Mac OS X gets it right.  It's a massive
pain to close the last document open in OpenOffice.org before opening a
new one, only to realise that now you have to sit through the loading
screen again.

  -- Daniel


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