Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

["Philip Ganchev" <phil ganchev gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Pedro Maurício Costa
<pmauricio costa gmail com> wrote:
> Well, since we are comparing here with Firefox, don't forget that
> there is a way to close the current window (including all tabs)
> without closing them one by one. Don't you want to consider this case
> as well, by using Ctrl-Shift-W for "close current window". When only
> one tab is open "close tab" or "close current window" have the same
> behaviour, of course.
>
> Pedro Maurício Costa

Isn't it the job of the window manager, rather than the application,
to handle closing of windows? If so, should the HIG specify it? In
Metacity, the shortcut is "Alt+Space; c".