[orca-list] Want your opinion on the removal of "Close" buttons on some dialog windows

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

Members of the GNOME team are considering removing the "Close" buttons 
on many dialogs in GNOME.  For example, almost all of the GNOME 
Preferences windows -- Appearance Preferences, Keyboard Preferences, AT 
Preferences, etc. -- have this "Close" button.

The discussion on this subject is here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-themes-list/2007-November/msg00000.html

"I wanted to investigate if we could get rid of all our Close-buttons in 
some windows, since every window have a big close button in the top 
right corner anyway. (therefore less clutter) A big stopper for this was 
apparently the highcontrast themes, where the close button in the corner 
hit target is pretty small apparently."

If the "Close" button were removed, you'd have to remember to press 
Alt+F4 (or Alt+Space and then navigate to the menu item) to close a 
window.  Escape may also work.  I personally think this might be too 
much to remember (I like "Close" buttons), and can also leave you 
wondering if any changes you made in the window were saved or lost as a 
result of pressing Alt+F4.

Anyhow, your thoughts on this would be appreciated.  If you're strongly 
for or against the idea, please provide a constructive comment for why.

Thanks!

Will