Yes, I know... I was referring to the earlier question of whether QUIT should 
be in the app-menu on window-menu, and whether or not QUIT should totally kill 
the app or just close the current window - an issue when several browser 
windows are open with several tabs each and in different work spaces... 

Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 06:50 +0100, Rick Opper wrote:
>> So, an app can be kept running without any windows open then? Like on a
>> Mac where all windows are closed but not the app? In that case, the
>> app-menu would have QUIT, the window-menu would have CLOSE and SAVE, but
>> then which one would have OPEN and NEW? would NEW be split? -> NEW
>> WINDOW in app-menu, NEW DOCUMENT in window-menu?
>> 
>> just being the devil's advocate... I have often quit my browser when I
>> wanted to just close the current window. I don't think that's an issue
>> with QUIT. Quit should kill the app. the X button should close the
>> window. Maybe the app should quit it's self if there are no windows
>> left...
>> 
>> If we're going to have apps running with no windows then we need a way
>> for users to see what's running - as opposed to what's open. QUIT would
>> need to be both in the app-menu AND the context menu for apps in the
>> dash... or something like that...
>
>No, closing the last window of an app does not leave it running in the
>background.
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