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Re: Unity Task Switching (keyboard-shortcut for closing spread windows)

 

Ahh okay. I hadn't realised that. I guess that makes sense then, for consistency.

On 17/03/12 13:06, nick rundy wrote:
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.

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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
    <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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