Re: [Usability]sft+ctl+w v. ctl+q

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On 5 Feb 2003, Calum Benson wrote:

> Date: 05 Feb 2003 14:48:08 +0000
> From: Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>
> To: bordoley msu edu
> Cc: Luis Villa <louie ximian com>, usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability]sft+ctl+w v. ctl+q

> > quit and ctrl+q should be deprecated.
> >
> > Close all windows is really vague, and non-standard, and some of us
> > (including me) consider its presence in nautilus a bug (but i'm not making to
> > big a fuss about it).
>
> Coincidentally, there's a debate about this on the Mozilla accessibility
> list just now, and a 187-comment bug report in bugzilla:
>
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug?id=39057

that link did not work for me
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39057

You had me worried for a minute there, I am relieved that the bug has been
VERIFIED WONTFIX.
After years of using Windows and a bit of Macs, I am very familiar with
most of what is set out in the current HIG and would be quite upset with
most of the changes suggested in these threads.

What happened to keybindings being configurable in GTK/Gnome apps (by
simply hovering over the menus and hitting the new key combination)?  Is
it disabled in some cases to avoid users inadvertantly changing the
keybindings?

I hope that being easily able to configure keybindings would appease most
of the people in this thread.

Later
Alan H.