“Close Project”, “Close All Projects” and the “X” close all projects when only wanting to close one of the multiple projects. Clicking the “X” or “File > Close Project” Should only close the window that is being interfaced with NOT all of the programs’ different windows. These aren’t tabs, that is the way I would expect a tabbed program to function, along with an are you sure you want to close all tabs warning. As most if not all do in Windows.
Besides being redundant, having three buttons that do the same thing and one of them labelled in such a manner as to be confusing and making no sense when someone with multiple documents open who wants to close just one will click the option that allows for the one to be closed. When given the choice, but the choice is not what was expected is far from intuitive or helpful. For instance, I have a project called “Recipes” one “Free-Write” one “Memoir” and one is the “Novel” I’m working on. I go over to Recipes and Click “Close Project” (singular) I expect just the “Recipes” project to close not all of them.
In one of the other articles, I saw someone say this is the behaviour of even Word. I guarantee it is not. If you have multiple documents open you and click the X to close that instance and not all open windows. Even here in the browser, I’m using to type this. When I close this window it will not close the others I have open on my other screen. This may be window behaviour that is expected in Mac’s I don’t know, IMO it shouldn’t be expected anywhere.
In closing, if Scrivener is a “tabbed” program or is designed to act like it please make it so clicking the “X” to close the one window closes just that window or clicking the “Close Project” closes just that project. Phrasing matters in interface design and using a singular gives users the expectation that one thing will be closed not all of the windows. Thank you for your consideration. Have a good day. Otherwise I am enjoying using Scrivener as a new writer I hope to have a long relationship besides this one very frustrating and confusing issue.