"Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Although you might object fiercely,
Fiercely is probably an overstatement :) > I would like to state that Mac users and Windows users all have the > same point of view in this. To see this, realize that the motivation > for the current implementation of the item is to enable Mac users to > close the last window, but to make sure not to quit the application. > If we now define this as the exact meaning of "Close Window", then > Windows users (and others) use the item in exactly the same way > until there is only one window left. The best is probably to look at what other applications do. - firefox: File>Close (Ctrl-w) closes tabs and then windows as needed, until nothing remain (then is exits on windows/linux but not on mac). There is no separate notion of 'close window' - openoffice (on linux): there is a file>close (without shortcut) that is still enabled when there is no file. Ctrl-w is bound to window>close which closes the current window unless this is the last one. In this case, it closes the documents and keeps the empty window. The next Ctrl-w will quit openoffice. - word 2003 (winxp): there is a file>close and no window>close (but there is a Ctrl-w binding, which seems to do that). When a window is not the last, File>close will close it on last document of the window. When it is the last, an empty window remains and File>close is disabled. With Ctrl-w, the window is made empty when closing last document, and then ctrl-w is disabled. I guess this is the behaviour you are referring to. I guess that I prefer the openoffice behaviour for windows. This allows to close the application completely via successive Ctrl-w, but the is no surprise since one sees the empty application before quitting. JMarc
