Closing, minimise and change size buttons

[RobSeegel]

6F726E781D0 wrote: I really like it when the red button just closes a window and not quits the app. I hate to have to start the app over and over again. Safari is one app that just closes the window but not quit the application. I want the app open. The same goes for most applications. It is also the Apple

definition

of the red button usage. See the Mac Help.

Before I replied, I reviewed the user interface guidelines that Apple published. Check them out - you may have to scroll down on the section for Closing windows. Incidentally, the definition of

Close window

is conveniently terse in Mac help. Strictly speaking, it is correct. In all cases, it will close the window. Whether or not this action is sufficient to close the application is left out. I tend to think this was done for simplicity sake here. The user interface guidelines go further.

For some cases, just closing a window is the right behavior. An application like Safari or Firefox, that can create multiple windows is a different case than an application like MM HD.

If I want to temporarily close a MM window until later, I minimize it.