Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Activity Monitor: memory question Date: 26 Oct 2015 19:06:41 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <562d4274$0$25235$c3e8da3$e408f015@news.astraweb.com> <562d8ceb$0$62743$c3e8da3$dbd57e7@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net fPPBpuEku28DABkbRj+a3AnKCUsn4PQsWeGCyQTYnH+nX8ZiRP Cancel-Lock: sha1:dMQM4QEuz4ac8mlReLKAEAgipmM= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:84210 On 2015-10-26, JF Mezei wrote: > On 2015-10-25 18:45, Jolly Roger wrote: > >> I'm still running Yosemite at the moment. You don't just select the >> process and click the quit button in El Capitan? > > Which button is that ? Some of the unlabelled button that I have no idea > what they will do if I click on them ? Used to be that Apple's GUI was > very good at indicating what a button would do. > > I assume you are refering to the "X" button. Will that give me a choice > to kill or send a stop request to the process or just kill it ? There is > no indicatiobn of what it will do. For all I know the "X button just > closes the window. > > Apple should be using precise terminology in this app, not dumbed down > words or meaningless icons. It's changed from a red stop sign to a gray stop sign with an X in the middle. While the label is now gone, anyone with a collection of brain cells instinctively knows which button to press: -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR