GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 135472
need a keycut for hiding the buddy list
Last modified: 2005-09-24 10:50:31 UTC
My favourite thing about Muine is that I can hit "Esc" and have the window hidden. I'd love this for Gossip. Here's some IRC on this; <edd> while we're on the feature wishlist, i'd love if if Esc was mapped to "Hide Window" in Gossip. THat's almost my favourite Muine feature. <ross> actually, that would close one of the few gossips bugs i've got <HallskiZz> edd: bugzilla? <ross> so i second it <edd> HallskiZz: w00f <seb128> it's a good idea, I second it too :)
A shortcut is good, but I'm not sure esc is the best one. Escape should only be used for things that have a cancel button or can be cancelled in some other sense.
I don't especially mind which key is used, as long as it's consistent among GNOME apps.
Created attachment 27515 [details] Screenshot showing debian@conference.jabber.ru
Argh, stupid bugzilla :)
How about instead of escape, you make it hide when you press alt-f4 or click the close button. (optionally) sooo much easier than trying to aim at the tiny green circle in the tray.
Alt-F4 and the close button are ways to actually exit the application. In pretty much all other notification bar living applications (outside of GAIM, which is only slightly different) the escape key hides the window back to the bar. Closing the application actually exits the application. Muine and GAIM both use escape, and it's odd for me to remember Control-W for Gossip exclusively.
Control-W is useful (for the Chat window) because it is consistent with other apps that have tabs, like Firefox and xchat for example. I am not sure how consistent this is in Gnome though. Escape is commonly used when you want to hide a dialog, now a Window. The main window in Gossip is a window. I agree with Richard and since Gossip's main window is not a dialog, using escape doesn't feel right IMO.
It's not so much about window vs. dialog as it is about cancelling some operation. Escape is currently being used by more and more applications to hide the main window so I guess it would be OK to use even though it feels a bit weird to do.
Fixed.