Multiple windows saving

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 11.12.07 19:19:01, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> On Monday, 10. December 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 10.12.07 14:09:20, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > > Ctrl-Q is right next to close tab (Ctrl-W) on many keyboard layouts,
> > > including US. Is that really a good idea? IMHO, something used that
> > > rarely doesn't really deserve a shortcut by default except the ALT-F Q
> > > that is the menu accelerator.
> >
> > Huh? Closing an application is rarely used? Apart from that if you find
> > that you hit it accidentally, then change the shortcut. Ctrl+Q is the
> > default in KDE for quitting an application and the same in almost any
> > other App I've seen so far on my desktop.
> 
> No it's not, happens to me regularly in Konqueror when closing tabs.

Sorry, but to what do you refer here, i.e. what is not?

> Every two weeks or so maybe, but it's still annoying - in contrast, I think
> I intentionally used the shortcut maybe once or so.
> 
> Kate is also prone to being closed accidentally, as will be KDevelop with 
> Ctrl-W-closable files. Short survey, does anyone here use Ctrl-Q for any 
> application?

I use Ctrl+Q regurlarly for Konqueror and KDevelop. I don't use Kate
that much. I also use Ctrl+Q on almost any other app that I do close
while the X11 session is running.

> (I do think that the shortcut should be reassigned to Ctrl-Shift-Q.
> That would get rid of a lot of unnecessary trouble.)

As you know there's a lot of things that should be done wrt. shortcuts..

Andreas

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