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If I only could to quit mac apps with a single click...

Apple knows this has been a issue for users moving from windows. They chose to solve it in a different way though. OS X uses auto-terminate, killing apps which haven't been used in a while. I think the algorithm was too aggressive when lion released but I think they made it a bit saner in mountain lion.

Command+Q?

This.

I don't see why you'd spend hours writing a system utility to close apps on a Mac that provides a perfectly easy to use keyboard shortcut.

Because I want to close apps with a single [mouse] click with my right hand, without displacing my left hand to press that keyboard shortcut.

Do you find that you quit apps so frequently that going through a one-level menu is a hardship? Because I don't know a lot of people who use their computers that way.

Yes, I actually do it quite frequently (in Windows and Linux).

Why do you want to quit an app so badly?

>so badly

Yes, so badly that I even wrote a small menu bar ("tray") utility labeled as "[ X ]". When clicked, it quits an app with the currently active window. But well, this is not an ideal replacement...

I'm just very used to quit an app when I'm done working with it, no matter how soon I'll need to re-open it...

Interesting! It has never occurred to me that this would be important. I never quit apps, unless they're misbehaving (which is, admittedly, much more often than I'd like).

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