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On 08/25/11 19:30, Robby Findler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Marijn <hk...@gentoo.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Robby,
>> 
>> On 08/25/11 14:13, Robby Findler wrote:
>>> The intention is that "close" means "close window" and the 
>>> <menukey>-w shortcut moves between the close and close tab menu
>>> items depending on how many tabs are open.
>>> 
>>> Are you seeing something different than that?
>> 
>> On Linux, in my File menu the Ctrl-w shortcut is always listed
>> as shortcut for Close, while Close Tab has no shortcut, but I see
>> now that Ctrl-w's behavior is actually to close the current tab.
>> So in this case my suggestion comes down to just relabelling the
>> menu items from:
>> 
>> File -> Close
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> File -> Close Window
> 
> I'm going to follow the apple human interface guidelines on this
> point and leave things as they are:
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Menus/Menus.html
>
> 
> 
>> and fixing the moving of the Ctrl+W keybinding in the labels.

In this case you should fix the above-mentioned moving, because on Gtk
Ctrl+W stays put no matter the number of tabs.

>> Another option is to change:
>> 
>> File -> Close (Ctrl+W) File -> Close Tab
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> File -> Close Window (Ctrl+Shift+W) File -> Close Tab (Ctrl+W)
>> 
>> and not move the shortcuts depending on tab plurality.
>> 
>> Firefox and Midori both have Ctrl+Shift+W bound to Close Window,
>> so maybe that is a good candidate for drRacket too (if a shortcut
>> beyond Alt+F4 is desired for Close Window). Other programs with
>> tabs I checked only have one of Close Window and Quit, in each
>> case bound to Ctrl+(Shift+)Q.
> 
> I like the idea of adding shift, but I've changed things so that 
> instead of the w shortcut going away, the close menu item becomes 
> <menukey>-shift-w (so the shifting behavior is still there and we
> are complying with the guidelines in the no-tabs case).

On Gtk nothing has changed for me.

Marijn

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