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Bug 524730 - Please use ctrl+w to close application
Please use ctrl+w to close application
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: System-monitor maintainers
System-monitor maintainers
: 587513 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-27 23:26 UTC by Björn Lindqvist
Modified: 2012-07-20 20:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Björn Lindqvist 2008-03-27 23:26:08 UTC
gnome-system-monitor should use ctrl+w to exit instead of ctrl+q.
Comment 1 Benoît Dejean 2008-03-29 15:02:57 UTC
Why ?

http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-keyboard.html.en

It says that Ctrl+Q is the standard for "Quit the application" ?
Comment 2 Björn Lindqvist 2008-03-30 17:09:34 UTC
Yes, but I don't that that is valid for single-document apps like gnome-system-monitor. I open the system monitor window by left-clicking on the applet in the menu. Then I dismiss it by closing the window, the application doesn't quit since it is still running in the panel.

There has been lots of talk on the mailing lists about ctrl+q vs. ctrl+w and I think in general ctrl+w was the more preferred option.
Comment 3 Benoît Dejean 2008-04-14 13:40:44 UTC
multiload-applet and system-monitor are not the same application. If you don't run the applet, do you think it would still make sense to use Ctrl+w ?
Comment 4 Björn Lindqvist 2008-04-14 17:20:06 UTC
Yes, but it is your choice. Lots of prior discussion:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/hig/2002-August/msg00028.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00017.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2006-April/msg00016.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2003-February/msg00025.html

and bug reports and complaints. But no definite answer yet. Only thing you can do is try and convince as many project leaders as possible that ctrl+w is the right choice so that sometime in the future there will be only one keybinding to close them all, one keybinding to find. :)
Comment 5 Benoît Dejean 2008-04-15 07:58:12 UTC
Don't you think that some users would expect ctrl+w to close a tab rather than the whole application ?
Comment 6 Björn Lindqvist 2008-04-22 19:58:20 UTC
There is only one way to find out...
Comment 7 C de-Avillez 2011-11-07 21:50:02 UTC
*** Bug 587513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Robert Roth 2012-07-20 20:13:48 UTC
Marking this as WONTFIX, as even the latest HIG [1] suggests Ctrl+Q for closing an application, and Ctrl+W for closing a document. As System Monitor is an application (does not handle documents at all), it should be closed with Ctrl+Q, as it is.

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.5/input-keyboard.html.en#standard-shortcuts