GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 119925
Please change "close" shortcut to anything but Ctrl-w
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Hi, Any unix user will tell you about two very common key combinations. Ctrl-U will delete a whole line, and Ctrl-W will delete a word. This is embedded at a kernel level in the terminal handling code. It works universally in every unix I have ever seen. A major problem occurs when someone familiar with these key combinations tires to type in galeon. While filling out forms such as this bug report form, one might be tempted to use Ctrl-W to fix spelling and other mistakes, only to end up losing all their work, because galeon will close the window/tab or even the whole browser. I think the severity of this bug should be higher than "normal" because of the data loss involved, but I'll leave that decision up to you. Thanks, Norbert
The shortcut won't be changed from Ctrl+w, as that is specified by the gnome hig. However the real problem is that the emacs key bindings are getting ignored. We already have a bug for that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100636 ***