That the user should not be able to tell that anything has happened removing an application from the Command-Tab switcher, when the user knows darned well that it was there a while ago, is disruptive and confusing. Auto Termination should be completely transparent, meaning So while the timing may have been changed, the basic behavior has not and the basic behavior still seems to me to be just plain wrong. But they did eventually vanish from the Command-Tab switcher (and the Dock, if they weren’t permanently resident there). In my experiments, applications such as TextEdit and Preview no longer vanish from the Command-Tab switcher the moment they were backgrounded and without windows. Here’s a rundown of some of the more noticeable changes in 10.7.2 (and if you find others, please do mention them in the comments).Īuto Termination - The Auto Termination behavior that I discussed in “ Lion Is a Quitter” (5 August 2011) appears to be moderated somewhat. It turns out that a couple of the behaviors mentioned in our article “ Subtle Irritations in Lion” (17 August 2011) are in fact emended, and there are a few additional if subtle usability improvements. (Suffice it to say for now that initial efforts to move to iCloud have been fraught with problems for many people, so if you’re not desperate to try the new features, you might want to wait for a bit.) So let’s leave iCloud to one side for a moment and focus on the rest of 10.7.2. Now, iCloud is a major subject, and we’ll doubtless be featuring considerably more news and information about it shortly. The delay in releasing 10.7.2 was not, it appears, so that Apple could make extensive changes, but so that iCloud could appear on your Mac and your iOS devices simultaneously in other words, iCloud is 10.7.2’s big new feature. Even minor tweaks are fairly few and far between. If you were seriously expecting that Apple would provide an official option for turning off major new features such as Auto Save, those hopes are dashed modifying (or even moderating) its strategy is not a typical part of the Apple ethos.
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