Re: [Usability] Escape Closing Dialog

[Kalle Vahlman <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

On 12/13/05, Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> wrote:
> For the record, the GTK+ package in Novell and Suse Linux has a patch to
> make all dialogs close when you press Escape.  Our users truly love it;
> it is said to have increased shareholder value by 0.42%.

For curiosity value, also the 770 has the escape button closing all
dialogs, although it's not done at the Gtk+ level AFAIK.

And look how big of a fuss it has made!

Must be a real sales booster, GNOME would probably go out of stock too
if it ever had that feature.

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