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- From: dave@yggdrasil.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (David Lee Matuszek)
- Subject: Re: Completing tasks under the desktop metaphor
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.220239.472@gvl.unisys.com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:02:39 GMT
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- In article <id.5JYV._AH@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- |>
- |> Personally, I find the Mac model where applications have this strange undead
- |> life after you've quit working on the file associated with them quite
- |> disturbing. I feel it VERY strongly violates the desktop metaphor, and
- |> I'm frequently caught out when there's some application lying around in
- |> the background eating up memory with no visual indication that it exists.
-
- I agree. It should be part of the Human Interface Guidelines that
- every open application has at least one open window. Many applications
- do this, though usually it's with an annoying Standard File Open dialog
- box. A simple little logo, or a fairly nonobtrusive About box, would
- be fine, if there isn't something more appropriate.
-
- Of course, if the user hides all the application's windows, then you
- should let it be hidden.
-
- IMHO, of course. I'm quite used to quitting everybody else's
- applications when I sit down to our public Mac, so it doesn't bother me.
-
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