Quit on Ctrl+Q

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff]

Quit on Ctrl+Q key combo, as described in the keyboard shortcuts document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jUtWkfqlwDydaO-B67F9PsOhE66AZ2y5N_uDRW9pOuQ/edit

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Midori has switched to quitting on Ctrl+Shift+Q some time ago because users tend to accidentally hit Ctr+Q when aiming for Ctrl+W or Ctrl+A.

[Daniel Rollings (daniel-rollings)]

I agree that the shortcut for quitting an app as opposed to closing a window should involve a meta key, but it's also important not to hard-code this. I think the blueprint for Consistent keyboard shortcuts is on the money, but there needs to be a central table of common shortcuts that is truly adhered to as part of the HIG. For Macs, if it's a menubar item, it can be set as a keyboard shortcut in a specific app or in all apps, and this for example lets me map Command-Shift-M to Zoom (close enough to maximize) across all apps. A similar level of consistency for sizing, tabbed navigation, document opening/saving, and app quitting is highly desirable and not just in Midori.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Is there any way we can do this in Granite Application or as a function of Gala or something so that all apps just have this automatically for free?

[Mario Guerriero (mefrio-g)]

With Gala we could call delete-event signal of the window when CTRL+Q is clicked. If it can be so I suggest to use the current implementation since many apps, such as scratch, do some functions before close themselves

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Keep in mind cases where Ctrl+Q is intentionally being disabled, such as Midori which uses Ctrl+Shift+Q.

Another point is, if this only works in Gala, we're going to see very strange and confused problem reports. Not even all of Elementary developers use Gala.

[Tom Beckmann (tombeckmann)]

Well, it would probably conflict with other apps using ctlr+q too, I'd rather say put it in GraniteApplication and make it disable-able for the worst case. We inherit some signals from GLibApplication and GtkApplication which could be useful here.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Gala can only call closing the window, not the actual quit function (which are different things in many apps, e.g. BeatBox).

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Cody, why this is "Won't Fix" for Noise?

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

It's actually fixed for noise

[Timo Reimerdes (timorei)]

I stumble upon this every single time I use files - avid keyboard user when laptop is not on docking. ;)

One of these details that are like a sore in the mouth: you just can't stop poking it once you know it's there. Just like that godaweful idea in midori: Everyone is ctrl+q - lets do it different.

Closing a series of windows right now looks like this:
fotos, midori, noise, files, terminal

fotos works
midori takes no simple shortcut (1 failure)
noise takes no shift-shortcut (1 failure)
files takes neither, but does react to alt+f4 (3 tries!)
And terminal uses something else entirely (usually I don't have to try all shortcuts, because terminals are so distinctive)

Ctrl+q -> Ctrl+q -> *wonders* -> Ctrl+Shift+q -> Ctrl+Shift+q -> *wonders* -> Ctrl+q -> *wonders*-> Alt+F4 -> *recognize* Ctrl+d

It might be minor, but it is REALLY anoying and feels... well... inconsistent.

[PerfectCarl (name-is-carl)]

Fixed in files/all-views-vala

[Cody Skinner (wskinner)]

Ctrl + Shift + Q is the shortcut used to quit terminal. The CTRL key by itself in terminal is usually used for control commands, such as ^c.

[melmolot1177 (melmolot1177-deactivatedaccount)]

Is there any possibility of implementing Ctrl+Q on Evince (PDF Viewer packaged by default with elementary OS)? Currently, its default seems to be Ctrl+W, which doesn't settle well with the 'defaults just work' idea.