I disagree, #1025 is about a different bug. I am not asking for the Steam client to minimise to the notification panel, I'm asking for the button to close Steam, period. Close as in not running anymore, freeing the memory and processor time it was taking. Asking for a daemon to keep running in the background is something different entirely.
They explained -why- this was done in 1025.
Then I guess I'm requesting a feature:
Quoting 1025:
"We deliberately switched the close box to minimize because of the number of people where the app indicator didn't work. If the window actually closes and there is no app indicator there's no UI at all for Steam even though it's still running, so we switched to minimizing. Unfortunately there's no way to know if app indicators are working (presence/absence is not sufficient as even if they're present they do not always work). Our hope is that the problems there will get worked out and then we can remove our workarounds and rely on the app indicator, at which point closing the window will close it."
There is also an explanation on HOW to make it close when you click the X on the very same issue.
Nothing extracted yet.
Currently clicking on the cross icon minimises the application.
The expected behaviour of this button is to terminate the client.