Re: [Usability] Close buttons on instant-apply dialogs

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Pete <pete setchell goodtechnology com> writes:

> On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 01:05, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> 
> > As I see it there should be an accessible way to dismiss a window.
> > IIRC Bill Haneman said that no Close button is no ironclad
> > accessibility stopper. What about using Esc?
> 
> This would make a lot of vim and vi users *very* unhappy - Esc is used
> to switch to command-mode in both of them.
> 
> Making the Gnome default short-cuts conflict with the most ubiquitous
> and powerful unix editor is probably not a good plan ;-)

Find a keysym that doesn't conflict with emacs.  (-:   Gnome 
dialogs have closed on Esc for years now, and no one's complained.  It's
a nice shortcut, but it can't be the only way to kill a dialog.

-Jonathan