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Rght, MacOS deliberately adopted a document-centric model rather than an application-centric model, and used to talk about it quite a lot as a decision they fel
by pwinnski 4y ago
Rght, MacOS deliberately adopted a document-centric model rather than an application-centric model, and used to talk about it quite a lot as a decision they felt they made correctly while others didn't.
Really it's not so much "correct" or "incorrect," just different. But well-documented.
- ankurdhama 4y agoBut isn't document-centric model more confusing? For example system settings is not document-centric so when you close the window or quit the app it will exit. But for other document-centric apps closing the window and quitting the app are different. Activity monitor is something that does't sounds like document-centric but yet it behaves like one, closing the windows doesn't quit it and it will keep running in background.
- pwinnski 4y agoActivity monitor can have more than one window, even though most people apparently never hit Cmd-1, Cmd-2, Cmd-3, or Cmd-4 to launch other windows. It also runs in live-icon mode with no windows at all. AFAIK, then, that leaves System Preferences as the sole exception to the normal model, and sure enough, that gets a lot of complaints from those of us who've been using Macs for long enough to remember when people at Apple really worked hard to implement the models consistently. There are some third-party apps that break the model, too, which is unfortunate.