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The window vs. app distinction is pretty easy to smooth over, just sub out ⌘Q for ⌘W so you’re quitting instead of closing windows. The extra layer of grouping
by jwells89 3y ago
The window vs. app distinction is pretty easy to smooth over, just sub out ⌘Q for ⌘W so you’re quitting instead of closing windows.
The extra layer of grouping can actually be pretty nice at times, since it allows the user to for example close or minimize/restore all windows of an application across all monitors and virtual desktops at once, but it does take a bit of a different mental model.
- euroderf 3y ago⌘Q is evil, sitting as it does next to ⌘W. Too many disasters. I disable it / remap it somewhere in System Settings.
- dzhiurgis 3y agoChrome nailed it Is there plugins that can do same?
- corney91 3y ago...until you need to close a Finder window and you need to remember to use ⌘W because that can't be quit. Then you need to make sure to ⌘-tab past Finder because it will hang around near the top of recent apps until you've switched to enough other apps to push it to the bottom of the list. If anyone has a way around this I'd love to hear it, but I think it's basically a side effect of apps being allowed to be open without a window and Finder always needing to run, so seems like an inherent part of the MacOS experience.
- jwells89 3y agoIn that case, there’s ⌥⌘W which will close all windows (works in other apps too). You can also use a defaults command to add Quit to the Finder’s menu (I do this to be able to easily temporarily hide desktop icons).
- corney91 3y agoThanks! I'll give those a go next time I'm on my work machine.