Comments for Red, Yellow, Green

Comment from Tom on 2004-03-23

2004-03-23T23:27:11Z

What a lovely thought. It had actually never occurred to me. Perhaps this is part of Apple's auspicious thinking, in that it suggests new and other things. I can't remember ever having been inspired by a PC.

Comment from Christian on 2004-03-24

2004-03-25T00:42:28Z

The sad thing about these is that they are arranged the way they are - the Windows way. Under Mac OS 'Classic', you never accidentally closed a window you just wanted to toggle size.

Has been said before, I know.

Comment from Mark on 2004-03-25

2004-03-25T13:12:51Z

I never did have much use for those yellow apples... they just weren't right by me.

Have to agree with Christian about the placement. I use skins for WindowBlinds that let me change that. No matter how clever they get with up-arrows, green lights or red apples, it's just asking for trouble to have an irreversible function next to a commonly used reversible one.

Or, I suppose they could make "close" a reversible function. Close the window... but leave the app in memory for 10 seconds, giving the user time to hit the "oh crap, my GUI is somewhat less than intuitive!" button.

Comment from Becky on 2004-03-27

2004-03-27T08:45:24Z

Mark, do you seriously want to know how many times I've actually looked for "Undo Close Window"? Esp. when it's Safari, I have ten or twelve tabs open, and I overshoot the Back button and land on the red apple. And then... it's all gone! Sad, sad, sad.

Comment from TjL on 2004-04-14

2004-04-14T23:33:55Z

Becky: you ought to try Opera, which has an Undo Close Window button.

Opera 7.5 (for Mac/Linux/Windows) is in beta now at http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=50475

TjL
(click my name for 30 days to becoming an Opera Lover)

Comment from on 2007-02-26

2007-02-27T01:01:13Z

mine are just grey does anyone know how to change them back to colors?? mark

Comment from Brad Choate on 2007-02-26

2007-02-27T01:06:52Z

@Anonymous: Yes-- you're using the "Graphite" appearance option. Go to the "Appearance" control panel in your system preferences and change that first option back to "Blue" (meaning, color instead of monochrome).