Re: [Epiphany] new bindings

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:51, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 19:58, Luis Villa wrote:
> > Is there some reason ephy behaves like no other gnome app and uses ctl+w
> > to exit the entire app instead of to close tabs? This is a seriously
> > stupid break with convention that has already caused me to close my ephy
> > window repeatedly.
> 
> Heh I knew I was going to get a mail like this soon.
> It doesnt actually close the whole application, but just current window.
> As I said in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105076, I think
> we should have only one Close menu item, that close one by one the tabs
> and then the window for the last one.
> If no one disagree I'll change it that way.

I have no problem with a single close item; this seems like a fairly
reasonable behavior to me.

My objection is that galeon, gedit, xchat 2, and every other gnome2 app
with tabs uses ctl+w to close just that tab. To change it arbitrarily in
epiphany to match a very arbitrary, individualized notion of how tabs
should work seems braindead. I respect the desire to use epiphany as a
testbed for some better ideas about usability, but breaking consistency
is almost always bad usability, and this seems a particularly egregious
case, since it not only breaks consistency but breaks it in a way that
makes it very easy for people to lose data (as I have done twice now
today.)

Luis [please don't take this personally, Marco; if anyone should feel
flamed here it is Dave B., for clearly suggesting something without
giving it a great deal of thought.]

> Marco
> 
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