Re: [HIG] Question about historical reasons for file=>close

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 12:09, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> Out of curiosity more than anything else, what is the history behind
> file=>close (as oppose to just using the wm-menu). Also why did the hig
> team choose to use ctrl+w as oppose the wm-keybinding of alt+f4?

I don't know the answer to the first question off-hand, although some of
my HCI colleagues here probably do-- most of them used to work for Apple
:)  I'll ping them and see.

The Ctrl-W/Alt-F4 difference is explained in bug #76761, I think.

Cheeri,
Calum.

-- 
CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun Microsystems Ireland
mailto:calum benson sun com            GNOME Desktop Group
http://ie.sun.com                      +353 1 819 9771

Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems