Too easy to accidentally close a tab with no confirmation when using Dvorak keyboard

Bug #882769 reported by Silas S. Brown
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Bug Description

The New Tab keyboard shortcut is Shift+Ctrl+T, and the Close Tab shortcut is Shift+Ctrl+W. On a Dvorak keyboard, T and W are right next to each other (they are in the positions of K and comma on an English QWERTY keyboard). Therefore it is too easy to hit Close Tab by mistake when you want a new tab.

It would be nice if the Ctrl-Shift-W shortcut could ask for confirmation, especially if a program is running. Or if it could be disabled altogether.

(If you accidentally close a tab in Firefox, you can easily get it back. But not so in Terminal - you might have had a very complex program running in that tab....)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: lxterminal 0.1.9-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-12.51-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-12-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 27 21:12:49 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxterminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-03 (177 days ago)

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