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A similar recent trend that really bugs me is apps on OSX that run in the background, with a presence in the toolbar at the top of the screen used to be closabl
by jspash 6y ago
A similar recent trend that really bugs me is apps on OSX that run in the background, with a presence in the toolbar at the top of the screen used to be closable with a single click on the icon, move the mouse to the last item in the menu, which always used to be "Quit".
Now it's hidden under layers of menus on purpose.
The worst experience I've encountered is Adobe Creative Cloud. They force you to open the app with the icon, then use the main menu of the app on the other side of the screen to choose "Quit Creative Cloud" to then be presented with the following choices:
(Cancel) (Quit) (Hide)
"Hide" is highlighted and "Quit" is the one you just asked for. Perviously that step would pop up a nag screen begging you not to quit the app, but that no longer happens.
They are obviously testing various ways to become "stickier". And with each iteration it gets more and more difficult to close. I just want my RAM back please!
- iamflimflam1 6y agoThat seems to be a very common pattern now - for some reason everyone wants to be in your menu bar and they making it increasingly difficult to close.
- sriku 6y agoI won't call this particularly malicious .. but even Chrome is in this game - it asks to "hold cmd-Q" on macOS to quit chrome .. whereas every other app close when you type cmd-Q. My respect scales are tilting way away from Google and Microsoft is looking pretty good relatively.
- johns 6y agoThis is configurable from the main app menu though. It’s nice not to lose all your tabs if you slip and hit Cmd-Q instead of Cmd-W