On Jul 7, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> Thanks for the information. I had not heard of "sudden termination" but
> after reading your message, I googled it. Apparently it was also around in
> Snow Leopard, though I certainly never noticed a running app's icon
> disappearing from the dock until very recently (and I upgraded to Lion
> recently).
>
> I wonder what the advantage is to having a running app's icon disappear from
> the dock?
>> the system will terminate it without asking you. Unfortunately sometimes it
>> terminates the app without notifying all concerned; this means that the icon
>> vanishes from the Dock, or if it's permanently there, the 'app is in use'
>> light will go away.
The point here is that the app ISN'T running -- it was just terminated in a
novel way that failed to notify all concerned, like the trash system.
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