[Gossip-dev] Accelerator key inconsistencies

[Mikael Hallendal]

CJ van den Berg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 05:02:23PM +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 17:44 +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote:
>>> Why does Ctrl-w close a chat window and esc close the roster window? Should
>>> Gossip at least use one or the other consistently? (or even both if you
>>> want)
>> Ctrl+W is only used for closing tabs, if you close the last tab, it
>> closes the window. 
> 
> Nautilus, Epiphany, Abiword, Gnumeric, Gimp, Audacity... all close the
> window on Ctrl-w. Basically every GNOME application that opens more than one
> top level window. The only one I found that doesn't is gedit. Who's side do
> you want to be on? ;)

The Gossip roster window is pretty special and the only window that can
be compared to it in the above examples you gave (no idea what Audacity
is though) is the tools window (main application window you get when
just starting gimp) in Gimp which doesn't close on Ctrl+w either.

Abiword, Epiphany, Gnumeric windows and the image windows in Gimp can
all be compared to the chat windows of Gossip and they behave the same.

Abiword, Epiphany and Gnumeric also quits the application when the last
window (and last tab in that window in the case of Epiphany) is closed.

The Gossip chat windows works exactly as a browser window in Epiphany in
that it doesn't have a "Close window", only "Close tab and when last tab
is closed, close window".

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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