RE: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation: Ctrl="and cl ose the current one"

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> > There is no equivalent of the workspace switcher panel applet on 
> > Windows, but we do have that in GNOME.
> 
> 	Just to recap - I'm saying that (some?) GNOME users use 
> workspaces as a better way of organizing your windows. So, 
> assuming this is the usage model, I see the workspace 
> switching key binding being similar in function as Alt-Tab.
> 
> 	In the same way, I see the workspace switcher applet's 
> parallel as being the tasklist.
> 
> 	(I'm probably not explaining myself well here)

No, I see what you are saying now. I'm not against having another keybinding
for this metacity feature. As I said in another part of the thread:

> > > 	Using Shift-Alt-Down for Nautilus sounds good to me :-)
> > 
> > See my latest reply to that bugzilla thread,
> 
> 	i.e. that you want to use Control as the modifier to 
> mean "and close the other one" everywhere. That's a fair 
> point, but I neither see why it is hugely significant

It makes it more consistent, discoverable, and easy-to-remember. I think
those are good reasons. 

> nor why 
> you couldn't make Shift that modifier (or is 
> Shift-DoubleClick used for something else?)