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

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 17:24, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Do, den 27.05.2004 um 10:49 Uhr +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 00:38, Jamie wrote:
> > > Whilst hacking on Nautilus, I also created the following patch for
> > > Nautilus enhancement request:
> > > 
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142632
> > > 
> > > I choose Ctrl+Q as the shortcut key for closing all spatial windows at
> > > once - sure beats having to type killall nautilus to get rid of all
> > > those pesky popup spatial windows!
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Currently we have:
> Ctrl-W: Close
> Shift-Ctrl-W: Close Parent Folder
> 
> Can't we change it into:
> Ctrl-W: Close
> Shift-W: Close Parent Folder
> Shift-Ctrl-W: Close All Folders
> 
> The nice thing about that assignment is that the Shift key usually has
> an arrow up label which would be consistent with Alt-Up (Open Parent).
> Besides, the key normally is located above the Ctrl key. Yay.

Shift is not normally thought of as an accelerator key, also it might
cause issues if you ever want to type a capital w in the window.

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