Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"

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From: A. Pagaltzis
Subject: Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"
Date: 00:23 on 16 Mar 2007
* jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx <jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2007-03-16 01:10]:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:53:31PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented
> > behaviour that the close-tab button always had
> 
> I'm not sure if you want CTRL-W to do this. I don't. That is,
> to my mind CTRL-W is close window, not close tab.

Hmm, I'm not sure I follow. What behaviour are you referring to?

What I want is simply what Ctrl-W did prior to 2.x: it closes the
current tab, and if that tab happens to be the last tab in the
window, it closes the window. End of story. Doesn't get simpler
than this.

With 2.x, I have to use either Ctrl-W or Alt-F4, depending on
whether I'm looking at a window with several tabs or just one --
as long as I enable "Always show the tab bar." If I turn it off,
then Ctrl-W does what I want. (So after much wailing and gnashing
of teeth, I did turn it off.)

> If that somehow avoids this dementia for you, you can set this
> up with the Keyconfig extension.

My complaint is not with the choice of shortcut. My complaint is
that they took the perfectly simple and rational behaviour of a
simple gesture and added a nice big fat stumbling block to it.

> Personally, I find this extension worth the price of admission
> to prevent Backspace (the erase-previous-charachter key) from
> changing to the previously accessed web page. " Hey man,
> behaving the same way as Inernet Explorer does on some other
> platform you haven't used in 10 years is more important thatn
> not sucking."

I don't hate that, actually, though I prefer Alt-Arrowkeys for
paging through the history.

> Bets on whether the bug you identified will be the
> languish-forever-in-bugzilla kind?

Seems more like an intentional change to me -- so more probably
the RESOLVED WONTFIX kind (or REJECTED? not sure of their full
nomenclature).

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
There's stuff above here

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