W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > www-amaya@w3.org > July to September 2005

Re: [Moderator Action] Bug: Ctrl+X Ctrl+C doesn't quit

From: Leon Stringer <leon.stringer@ntlworld.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:19:07 +0000
To: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr
Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <1127315861.2867.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>




On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 09:02 +0200, Irene Vatton wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 19:30, Leon Stringer wrote:
> > Ctrl+X Ctrl+C to quit Amaya seems to have stopped working with 9.2.2.

> You're right.
> This occurs because we allowed the cut/copy/paste of URIs.
> So Ctrl X calls the Cut function.
> I suggest to change shortcuts to be compatible with GTK standards.
> What do you think?

I agree. Most things have Ctrl+Q for Quit. Firefox and Epiphany have
Ctrl+W to close tab (or window if no other tabs). Firefox has Ctrl+Shift
+W to close window. Obviously using 'W' would change the clipboard keys,
but Ctrl+C/V/X are so pervasive it makes sense to use these to me.
Received on Wednesday, 21 September 2005 15:23:36 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thursday, 20 September 2007 14:24:41 GMT