[Gossip-dev] Accelerator key inconsistencies

[Mikael Hallendal]

CJ van den Berg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:28:34PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Closing the Gimp tool window closes all the Gimp windows and exits the
> application. Closing the Gossip roster window doesn't close the chat windows
> /or/ exit the application, so I don't so how you can compare them. More
> importantly, the Gimp is designed that way because closing your tool window
> makes little sense if you still have other Gimp windows open. I don't see
> how that can apply to Gossip's roster window.

Hi,

Maybe you have a different version of Gimp than me and this changed
recently (and mine is too old). But my gimp-tool-window does not have a
Ctrl+w for closing it and pressing the X in the window frame does as in
gossip exit the application (and closing all other windows just as in
gossip).

Are you confusing the ESC for hiding the roster window here?

> Anyway, I didn't actually intend to start a long-winded bike shed thread. I
> just thought that it was pretty obviously a bug, so I thought I'd mention it
> in case no-one had noticed it.  If things are the way they are by design,
> that's fine with me.

No worries, just trying to understand how the current way of Gossip is
different from Gimp.

Currently the roster window is the main application window of Gossip. It
would be nice to change this (and martyns applet is a way of doing this
and making the applet the main UI of the application and the roster
window just another window as any other that you can show or close, no
need for hide then since you can just remove the window and have a way
to show it again from the applet).

If there are other ideas for how to achieve this (I personally don't
consider using only the notification icon for this an option).

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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