Re: Patch added for closing all spatial windows via menu and shortcut key

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 14:03, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 09:49, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 00:38, Jamie wrote:
> > > Whilst hacking on Nautilus, I also created the following patch for
> > > Nautilus enhancement request:
> > > 
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142632
> > > 
> > > I choose Ctrl+Q as the shortcut key for closing all spatial windows at
> > > once - sure beats having to type killall nautilus to get rid of all
> > > those pesky popup spatial windows!
> > 
> > I'm comitting this, sans the shortcut key. 
> > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/input-keyboard.html#standard-shortcuts
> > lists Ctrl-Q as "quit", which is a very common shortcut that we probably
> > shouldn't overload.
> > 
> > I'm CCing the usability list to get some input from them on a good
> > shortcut.
> > 
> 
> Okay I understand that and strictly speaking nautilus is one application
> consisting of the desktop, browser and spatial modes so yes logically
> you are right - if we were to make use of Ctrl+Q in that instance
> (assuming we are following the letter of the law) then that should close
> nautilus completely.
> 
> However from an end user point of view I would argue that these
> different modes appear as different applications and therefore it would
> be appropriate for Ctrl+Q to be used to close all spatial windows (and
> likewise the "Close All Windows" in the browser mode could also use
> Ctrl+Q for consistency). I cant believe there would ever be a need to
> quit nautilus entirely as its the desktop so there would never be a
> conflict with or a need for a "quit" shortcut for nautilus as such.

Most people seem to agree with this, and it makes some sense, so i'm
going with that.

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