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bee_ridertoday at 3:33 PM1 replyview on HN

I wonder why they decided to go with traffic lights. It doesn’t really map at all to the things you want to express on a desktop OS. Yellow=hide car but leave it running, and red=… destroy car?

The funny thing is, it could almost work on something like iOS, where (if I understand correctly) focusing away from an app suspends it typically. So that could be the red button. I’m not sure what yellow should be. Maybe put the app into a sort of non-interactive mode where it stays on the screen but doesn’t do any processing, just queues up notifications.


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someguyiguesstoday at 4:18 PM

Red = stop (close)

Yellow = yield (minimize)

Green = go (grow)

Makes sense to me.

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