On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 11:01:28AM -0400, John Thacker wrote: > > The question is, why simple viewers need two keystrokes to quit the > > program. Existing viewers like 'less', 'more', 'info' or 'xpdf' need > > only a simple 'Q' (instead of C-Q). > I would assume because the GNOME people would like consistency across > the platform (that's what led to this discussion) and people feel it > would be annoying to put in extra keystrokes to shift more interactive > editors and other programs into a viewing mode where 'Q' would quit them. > Having 'Q' for some programs and 'CTRL-Q' for others would be annoying, > as this thread has shown. Well, not to mention that it'd be horribly bad if hitting one key closed your web browser. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
