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typing in the Spread mode will automatically perform search on the titlebars. Delete-key will be needed for use in these contexts. For a keyboard shortcut to successfully work in the Spread context, it would HAVE to have a modifier before it I think.

> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:29:10 +0000
> From: m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Unity Task Switching (keyboard-shortcut for closing spread windows)
> 
> Yes I did. I am aware of the functions of the delete key. My first 
> choice of key would have been escape, but that's already used.
> The delete key is unused in this context, it is intuitive IMHO and it is 
> actually fairly rare that an accidental deletion (though I'm not 
> entirely clear how that would happen in this context) is irreversible. 
> Deleted characters/words are usually in programs for which there is an 
> undo function and deleting files has a confirmation and can be undone. I 
> don't really understand the problem with using it.
> We drag items to the trash to remove them from the launcher. I would 
> like to extend this functionality to closing windows in the spread and 
> therefore the use of the delete key makes perfect sense to me, as an 
> extension of this idea.
> 
> On 17/03/12 09:20, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > On 03/17/2012 02:34 AM, Matt Richardson wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > Do you really mean the Delete key?
> >
> > Without modifier, it deletes whatever is currently selected. In text, 
> > with no selection, it deletes the character after the cursor; with 
> > Ctrl it deletes the word after the cursor.
> >
> > It looks like Alt- and Shift-Delete are not in common use, but they 
> > are too close to commands that delete stuff and hence are not easy or 
> > even impossible to recover from, if the user does not understand what 
> > just happened.
> >
> >
> > (Shortcuts for commands that exist in many applications should be 
> > configured on a system level. It should be feasible to change the 
> > shortcut for printing or the shortcut for select-all. Optimal 
> > shortcuts depend on the set of commands actually used, their relative 
> > frequency, position on the keyboard in the context of one hand on the 
> > mouse vs both hands on the keyboard or a user having only one 
> > functioning hand ...)
> >
> >
> 
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