Re: Window manager interaction

[Wolfgang Lux]

Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi,
> > If the application delegate responds to - 
> > applicationShouldOpenUntitledFile the result is of course always  
> > respected (and guess you've implemented it in PRICE). What I've  
> > done is just to change the default behavior for a document based  
> > application if that delegate method is not implemented. GNUstep  
> > was handling this case as NO, whereas Mac OS X considers this as  
> > YES for a document based application. All I did was to implement  
> > the OS X behavior, which I find more reasonable and which seems  
> > better suited for a Windows like environment anyway.
> yes, you are correct. The application's behaviour should be  
> respected. If not, the interface style should be. I suggest that  
> your "YES" default instead of "NO" could be extended to mac-style  
> menus and not win95 only?

I feel unsure about mac-style menus. Classic Mac OS was similar to OS  
X and NeXTstep in that applications normally did not quit when their  
last window is closed. You could also hide and unhide applications as  
on OS X. For that reason I would think the right default for mac- 
style menus would me NO.

On the other hand, Classic Mac OS also had an application switcher, a  
menu at the right end of the menubar that allowed you to switch to  
any running application (whether hidden or not). Yet, I expect that  
it is unlikely that anybody would (want to) implement such an  
application switcher for Mac style menus, so returning YES makes  
sense to me too.

Wolfgang