Mac OSX: Close Button should Hide not Close App

[Luke Pearce]

On Mac OSX generally when you click the close button of an application it will hide the application (i.e it's still running in the Dock) rather than quitting it.

This has caught me out a couple of times when I'm downloading/uploading files and click the red-x expecting the app to carry on in the background but it actually quits FileZilla.

To sum up: Red-x should do the same as "Hide FileZilla" (Cmd-H).

[endian]

single window apps like Filezilla usually do quit when their window is closed on the Mac

[Luke Pearce]

I guess you could argue either way; when you close mail.app, iCal, Address Book they all hide rather than quit.

If you didn't want to make it hide perhaps there could be an option to confirm that you actually wanted to quit the app when you close and transfers are in progress?

[Tim Kosse]

If the close button hides, what is the minimize button for then?

[Luke Pearce]

Hide is probably more equivalent to minimize in Windows i.e. the current window is minimized to the app dock icon.

I tend not to use minimize so much on OSX; what it does is take a screenshot of the current window then adds it as a new icon to the right-hand side of the dock.