On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >>>> 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. > > The GTK interface guidelines suggest that "close" (and thus control-w) > should "close the current document" which, to me, means the current > tab, not the current window. I find that here: > > http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/hig-book.html#the-file-menu > > (This is different from Apple's which say that "close" always closes a > window.) I suppose that means that I should change the meaning of the > "close" menu under gtk without changing the label of the menu but I > think that's probably slightly more confusing than the status quo > (well, when the bug mentioned below gets fixed).
I tried 4 different tabbed application on my system (Ubuntu 11.04). Firefox, which doesn't try as hard to follow platform guidelines, doesn't have a close menu entry at all, and Ctrl-w closes the currently-open tab, unless there's only one, and then it closes the window. The other three applications (Pidgin, Epiphany, Gedit) all follow the behavior described in the HIG: there is only a Close menu entry (no Close Tab), it closes the current tab, and its shortcut is Ctrl-w. I think we should follow the platform guidelines here as well, and do the same. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
