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[nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Using Ctrl+W and middle-click to close windows (tabs) works because it is the same shortcuts in use by Web-Browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer). I think people will readily understand the shortcuts because of its universality of use in Web-Browsers.

Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:34:25 +0000
From: m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Unity Task Switching (keyboard-shortcut for closing spread windows)


  


    
  
  
    WOW. If they implement all of that it will be fantastic.

    I know there may be quite a few users who would question the removal
    of workspaces by default, but:

    A) they're still optional

    B) I used to use them all the time, but I've found that even without
    all of the extra features/improvements in this document, task
    switching in Unity is easier, so I rarely use workspaces now.

    

    +1 to the middle click idea and to having a keyboard shortcut. My
    only thought is that Ctrl+W is not intuitive for close.

    Since any letter might represent an appropriate word in one language
    but not another, I wonder if delete might not be more intuitive and
    international?

    

    Matt

    

    On 16/03/12 22:05, nick rundy wrote:
    
      
      
        The proposed Unity Task Switching features are nice work:
https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1EdrlUuZvA9P8-BZufUU2KlHGjg49p9UacF4MCL0U5uA/edit?pli=1&pli=1

        

        However, it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut option for
        closing windows from within Full-Spread and Application-Spread.
        The google doc made no mention of this capability.

        

        I hope the following feature for closing windows from within
        Full-Spread and Application-Spread will be added to the
        feature-list:

        1.) when a window in Full-Spread or Application-Spread has focus
        (i.e., orange highlight), pressing Ctrl+W will close that
        window.

        

        I think it would also be beneficial to have this feature as
        well:

        2.) middle-clicking a window from within Full-Spread or
        Application-Spread will close that window

        

        

      
      

      
      

    
  


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