Re: Fwd: [Bug 484145] [NEW] Keyboard shortcuts for closing window / application inconsistent with GNOME

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Bug 484145] [NEW] Keyboard shortcuts for closing window / application inconsistent with GNOME
Date: 2009-11-19 07:20:14
Message-ID: 937d27e10911182320v50a5ed64gfd6730f67b862a8c@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> I probably didn't explain enough. Alt-F4 is the default at least on Windows
> and Linux (KDE). But it is a window manager shortcut, not an application one.
>
> The usual default shortcuts are Ctrl-Q to quit an application and Ctrl-W to
> close a window. We have right now the Alt-F4 shortcut on our Quit item in the
> File menu. Something that no other application does AFAICT.

Usual if you're a Windows or KDE user then - probably 90% of the world or more!

How do other wxWidgets apps do it? I'd be surprised if they set their
own shortcuts based on the window manager that was in use at runtime.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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