On Jul 7, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Macs R We wrote: > 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.
Earlier today there was no Preview icon in the Dock (and I could not empty a PDF from the trash) and yet the Preview app showed up in What's Keeping Me? as the app responsible for the trash not being able to empty the PDF. Does this mean that the Preview app is really still running, or that the What's Keeping Me? app also was not notified? I even think that one time I looked at the Force Quit panel and saw the Preview app listed as running, even though it was not in the Dock. If indeed the Preview app is not really running, then there are a LOT of failed notifications (Trash, Force Quit, What's Keeping Me?, others?). Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
