On Nov 17, 2019, at 4:03 PM, brynn brynn@frii.com wrote:
GIMP went to having documents separate from the program with....well, it was the last upgrade that I got anyway. It drives me crazy. When I click close, I want close. I don't want to have to close a few different things to close a program. I don't think I have any other program (on Windows currently) like that. Even Libre Office Writer (which has multiple pages) closes with 1 click.
This is a platform-specific difference in expectations. It drives the Mac users equally crazy when a program quits unexpectedly: It is not substantially different from Inkscape hard-crashing when you close a document.
Mac applications almost universally stay open when the last document is closed. (There is normally a "Close" function to close a document, but also a separate "Quit" function to close all open windows and exit the application. This type of behavior is common, but not universal, on Windows as well.)
The two other applications that you name, GIMP and Libre Office, both handle this correctly (and stay open when you close the last document), as did Inkscape in versions prior to 1.0.
I've opened an issue for it: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/1193