GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 776385
Ctrl + w doesn’t close overview window
Last modified: 2017-08-24 15:59:22 UTC
Ctrl + w closes for example the Files/Nautilus window, but doesn’t work for the Preferences (gnome-control-center) window. Closing the “sub-panels” as reported fixed in bug #660814 [1] works. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660814
https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/keyboard-input.html.en says: Ctrl+W Closes the current tab or window. If the window uses tabs and there is only one open, the shortcut should close the window. Not sure if we need to make any changes here.
Making Ctrl+W close the window seems like a nice change to me. People will often be familiar with it from browsers, and it means you don't need to learn another shortcut.
commit 09263321d4e7ec56345a4aaca147299aa4c6c260 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Tue Jan 3 12:03:19 2017 +0100 shell: Close overview on Ctrl+W as well https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776385