Re: Window manager interaction

[Wolfgang Lux]

David Chisnall wrote:

> On 17 Oct 2009, at 00:01, Wolfgang Lux wrote:
>
> > With respect to problem (2), I think that this could be handled by  
> > terminating
> > applications by default when their last window is closed and the  
> > application
> > delegate does not respond to - 
> > applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClosed:.
>
>
> I was going to suggest this as the default behaviour for  
> NSWindows95InterfaceStyle (actually, I was going to implement it  
> and see if it worked nicely, but I haven't had time).  Most of the  
> time, this is how people expect document-driven applications to  
> work in Windows and Windows clones like GNOME and KDE.  The current  
> behaviour of moving the menu to the top of the screen is really  
> jarring in these applications.  I would suggest the following rules  
> for the Windows interface style:
>
> - When an application is first launched, a new document is  
> automatically created, if no window created by the main nib file is  
> willing to accept main window status.
>
> - When closing a window, if no other window is willing to accept  
> main window status then the application exits.

I agree that with MS Windows style menus an application should  
terminate when its last window is closed and have just committed code  
that implements that logic.

With regard to creating a new document upon program startup, I think  
that a document based application should always do so (regardless of  
the interface style) and have committed code for that too.

Wolfgang