On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another reason for me to delay running Mavericks as long as I possibly can. > Is this true for apps like Word and TextEdit, too??? If so, my motivation is > further reinforced. What the hell is Apple thinking of, changing its > longstanding GUI conventions??? >
There may be other reasons* not to upgrade to Mavericks, but this may not be one of them. On my 10.9.3 a slew of Apple and non-Apple apps all remain open after I've closed the last window. The one's that do auto-close seem to be sensible ones: System Preferences for many versions of OS X has auto-closed when the window was closed, now Contacts and Reminders does the same - I can live with that. On my Mac the vast majority of apps remain open when the last window is closed. I should point out that my Mavericks set-up isn't 'typical', so maybe that also has something to do with whether an app closes when the last window is closed. I believe most people are now slaves to the auto-save feature and the old black dot in the red traffic light icon that use to indicate that your working file had unsaved changes has been deprecated and now is only seen on 'old' apps. On my Mac I still have the black dot in red traffic light icon for all Apple and non-Apple apps as I do not have the auto-save feature turned On. To turn Off Auto-Save you check the cryptically named 'Ask to keep changes when closing documents' preference in the General pane of the System Preferences. *Mavericks is the most temperamental OS X I've used. I've had Finder windows that will not come to the front, drag and drop that will not work, when I start my Mac sometimes the Finder windows that were open when I shutdown are there, sometimes only one, and sometimes none - and it makes no difference if I check the box about 'Reopen windows when logging back in' or not. Plus a few other things that seem to suggest that Mavericks has a personality all of it's own. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
