Re: Observations from a Windows user

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:10:27 +0000, me@xxxxxxxxxxx (R) wrote:

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I didn't think we were differentiating, this was a generic across the
OS thing. eg, XP works pretty well the same be it Word or within
control panel?

Sometimes clicking X doesn't close an "app":
it sends it to the tray.

Which is where we started off in another related thread - T i m
actually *wanted* some Mac chat client to behave like that, because
that's what it does under Windows.

Consistency again, eh?

Cheers - Jaimie
--
To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
-- HL Mencken
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