My comparison between GNUcash and Skrooge (if anyone is interested)

[Michael Leone]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:45 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Sep 27, 2012, at 6:33 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Algeorge <agm.alistairgg at mailnull.com> writes:
>>> 3..GNUcash does not accept standards keys. For example when you have a tab
>>> open the usual way to close it would be Ctrl-F4, but you must use the close
>>> button! This inconsistency is consistent through GNUcash and IMHO a bad
>>> decision from the programmers as its very easy to implement a user friendly
>>> interface, which would make a real difference to user experience.
>>> Alistair./
>>
>> Define "standard" here.  Gnome-Terminal uses Shift-Control-Q to close a
>> window.  Firefox uses Control-W.  Evolution uses Control-W.  I don't
>> know anything that uses Control-F4 on Linux.
>
> Indeed. The standards that we try to follow are the respective platform Human Interface Guidelines. Gnome's [1] specifies ctrl-W for "close".

Control-W works on Windows, too. Just tried it on MS Word and IE9.

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