Major Flaw in Lion's Application Management

[Prodo123]

Remember when you press ⌘+Q it completely closed the application? Now Lion may "close" it but keep it running in the background to make it look like it boots a lot faster.

Of course, with this system errors like this come up.
Note the dock indicators.

 

[alvarodonaire]

In that specific case, you have to kill iTunes helper

 

[r.j.s]

Actually, the dock indicators are pretty much useless ... they can be turned off, and some apps may have their states reversed - i.e. they are on when the app is closed and off when the app is open ... you may have itunes open.

 

[Prodo123]

Actually, the dock indicators are pretty much useless ... they can be turned off, and some apps may have their states reversed - i.e. they are on when the app is closed and off when the app is open ... you may have itunes open.

Look at iCal. I have it enabled. And iTunes obviously isn't reversed.
I went to Activity Monitor and killed the process that gave this popup and the install went fine. Didn't even have to kill iTunes Helper. Perhaps it's another flaw?

 

[johnhw]

Are you installing Xcode? If so, kill iTunesHelper.

 

[me_94501]

John Siracusa's Lion review has some (highly technical) info that may explain why this is happening:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/8#process-model

 

[Prodo123]

John Siracusa's Lion review has some (highly technical) info that may explain why this is happening:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/8#process-model

That was what I was referring to.