Re: [Epiphany] new bindings

[Jeroen Zwartepoorte <jeroen xs4all nl>]

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 21:14, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 20:59, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:51, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 19:58, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > > Is there some reason ephy behaves like no other gnome app and uses ctl+w
> > > > to exit the entire app instead of to close tabs? This is a seriously
> > > > stupid break with convention that has already caused me to close my ephy
> > > > window repeatedly.
> > > 
> > > Heh I knew I was going to get a mail like this soon.
> > > It doesnt actually close the whole application, but just current window.
> > > As I said in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105076, I think
> > > we should have only one Close menu item, that close one by one the tabs
> > > and then the window for the last one.
> > > If no one disagree I'll change it that way.
> > 
> > I have no problem with a single close item; this seems like a fairly
> > reasonable behavior to me.
> > 
> > My objection is that galeon, gedit, xchat 2, and every other gnome2 app
> > with tabs uses ctl+w to close just that tab. To change it arbitrarily in
> > epiphany to match a very arbitrary, individualized notion of how tabs
> > should work seems braindead. I respect the desire to use epiphany as a
> > testbed for some better ideas about usability, but breaking consistency
> > is almost always bad usability, and this seems a particularly egregious
> > case, since it not only breaks consistency but breaks it in a way that
> > makes it very easy for people to lose data (as I have done twice now
> > today.)
> 
> My proposal was to have Close (ctrl+w) to close tab and for the last tab
> also the window. I still think that's the best solution. This doesnt
> break consistency I think, right ?
> 
> > Luis [please don't take this personally, Marco; if anyone should feel
> > flamed here it is Dave B., for clearly suggesting something without
> > giving it a great deal of thought.]

Personally, i always use Ctrl+Q to exit an application. In some cases
where that doesn't work (x-chat, gnome-terminal, epiphany) it's annoying
and i use other ways to close the program (use metacity to close the
app, type "exit" or Ctrl+W).

So i would like to keep the Ctrl+W behavior (close tab, if no more tabs,
close the window), but still keep Ctrl+Q: close all open windows and
exit the application.

Jeroen