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

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 09:49, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> 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.

Well, the HIG actually says that Close All Windows should be
Shift+Ctrl+W.  Of course we're currently using that for Close Parent
Folders, but now that we have a clash, the Right Thing would probably be
to switch to the HIG shortcut for Close All Windows (well, Close All
Folders, in our case), and come up with a different one for Close Parent
Folders.

Ctrl-Alt-W would be one of the more obvious alternatives, but
unfortunately Ctrl-Alt shortcuts aren't very easy to do with one hand
:/  Others might be some variant of Alt-Up (Open Parent) or F4 (the
window manager's "Close Window" shortcut), but neither of those sound
quite so appealing somehow.

Cheeri,
Calum.
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