It can be frustrating when having a minimalist workspace. The frustrations occur from having no Finder windows open and accidentally CMD+Tabbing to it (quickly). Finder doesn't have to be the First item available in the Application switcher either, it is an ordered list from application launch order. (So if Finder crashes and relaunches it can be 2nd).
The potential problematic behaviour comes from the fact that the new lion feature of closing background apps only seems to apply to SOME applications and not all. So quicktime will close when it enters the background with nothing open whereas Finder will not.
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It can be frustrating when having a minimalist workspace. The frustrations occur from having no Finder windows open and accidentally CMD+Tabbing to it (quickly). Finder doesn't have to be the First item available in the Application switcher either, it is an ordered list from application launch order. (So if Finder crashes and relaunches it can be 2nd).
The potential problematic behaviour comes from the fact that the new lion feature of closing background apps only seems to apply to SOME applications and not all. So quicktime will close when it enters the background with nothing open whereas Finder will not.