Re: [Usability] Re: Patch added for closing all spatial windows via menu and shortcut key

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 07:59, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> One could argue (and some have done) that close all spatial windows is
> very similar to quiting the filemanager, so ctrl-q makes sense. Whats
> your opinion on that?

There's possibly some merit in that, although it's not something I've
personally discussed with users.  However more than any other shortcut,
I would imagine most people would expect Ctrl-Q to close all the windows
they'd opened, not just spatial ones.  (And personally I'd expect that
of this command anyway, whatever the shortcut.)

Browser windows already use Ctrl-Alt-W for "Close All Windows", so it
still makes more sense to me to use that (or better still, the HIG's
Ctrl-Shift-W as I suggested earlier) for both types of window, and have
it actually close all the windows you've opened-- i.e. what the menu
item actually says it's going to do :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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