Re: [Epiphany] new bindings

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti oltrelinux com>]

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 20:59, Luis Villa wrote:
> 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.)

My proposal was to have Close (ctrl+w) to close tab and for the last tab
also the window. I still think that's the best solution. This doesnt
break consistency I think, right ?

> 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.]

Not breaking ctrl+w consistency has ever been one of my points in this
Close menus discussion, also when we talked about it for galeon. I guess
Dave was overlooking that problem and I should have probably explained
the reasons of my proposal better. Anyway, as long as we can find an
agreement, and I'm pretty sure Dave will agree on this, I think it's all
fine. Apart your tabs lost :)
I should get at fixing that tomorrow, I'm forced to look this boring
movie my gf tonight ... ;)

Wow, finally some flames also on epiphany-dev :)

Marco