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Should the preferences window be excluded from the "Window" menu? #54

Open sindresorhus opened 4 years ago

sindresorhus commented 4 years ago

I noticed that in some apps, the preferences window doesn't show up in the Window menu. But there's of course no consistency on this.

Apple Feedback Assistant report: https://github.com/feedback-assistant/reports/issues/111

Shows in `Window` menu

Xcode
Calendar (but in a different list than the main window, which is just weird)
Reminders
Safari
App Store
Mail
Contacts
Photos (but with a separator between it and the main window)
Keychain Access
Script Editor
Dictionary
Pixelmator
Fantastical
BusyCal (but with a separator between it and the main window)
Transmit
1Password

Does not

Notes
Messages
Final Cut X
Music
TV
TextEdit
Grapher
Terminal
Preview
Sketch

Based on my findings, I'm leaning towards keeping it in the Window menu. But I'm looking for more opinions.