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

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Ernst De Ridder wrote:

> Do we really need a ctrl-W for closing a window? Normally the window
> manager already has a hotkey for doing that.

Agreed- but I have doubts about just having Alt+F4, since this hotkey
requires more straining of fingers and hands to hit than Ctrl+W does.

> And using ctrl-Q for quitting doesn't really make me happy either; it's
> just to easy to type it accidentally. I would prefer something like
> shift-ctrl-Q.

Agreed.

> As for the original question: Isn't it much more sensible to have a quit
> instead of close all windows? I find those programs that present the user
> with an empt window when the last window is closed (e.g. acrobat reader)
> rather irritating. I have a window to show a document in. When having

Agreed as well. Acroread has some wacky MDI-like app-centric way of
handling closing windows. Ideally a user shouldn't need to be aware of
which app he's using, but would just be able to focus on the documents he
wants to work with.

regards,

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