08-11-2011, 03:33 PM
566A4C714760626C6B76050 wrote:
However, the crux of the thing is a new method of application handling in Lion: If an app supports exact resuming, and supports letting the computer know when it's OK to quit, the computer then reserves the right to quit the app at any time when there are no non-minimized windows onscreen. After all: the app's not getting in your way, and when you click to resume everything'll come back perfectly as you left it, right?
(The app's icon and those of minimized windows remain in the dock, by the way. They just don't have anything attached to them in a back-end sense.)
The short version is, Lion will automatically take care of the 'last window close = quit' issue, assuming the app supports resume and letting the computer know when it's OK to quit. Ideally, programs built for Lion also save automagically and only run on request, restoring their data perfectly if they were quit (by the system) and started again (by the user).
If this sounds familiar to you, you've probably already been experiencing something like it on your iPad or iPhone.
Why does Apple want everything to behave like iPad or Iphone? What about us that are used to leave the applications on? I never quit Mail or Safari, for example.