Re: Hide: when AppIcon is supressed

[Wolfgang Lux]

Germán Arias wrote:

> Attached a patch to NSApplication, to minimize all windows when the  
> user
> hide the app (or when is deactivated) if the AppIcon is suppressed. I

> know this is not the most elegant solution but avoid loss the app. I
> think the idea of have a miniaturized AppIcon is good, but for some
> reason, this AppIcon don't miniaturize after call -miniaturize:. Of
> course the user can minimize that AppIcon, but isn't the idea. Also I
> added "#ifdef _MINGW32_ [self miniaturizeAll: self]; #else...." in
> method deactivate:, just for be consistently.
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Miniaturizing all windows when an application is hidden is a  
reasonable workaround to avoid losing the app when there is no app icon.

However, miniaturizing all windows of an application when it is  
deactivated is definitely a BAD idea. When the user switches to  
another application (which is when -deactivate: is called) the  
application's windows should remain visible for the user. Of course,  
there is a problem when an application has no main window when you  
switch to another application, but I think that the application will  
terminate in that case (recall that panels in general are not supposed  
to be miniaturized).

Wolfgang