ALT F4 Closes Palettes—Should Only Close the App

[_Th]

If the last thing you've 'touched' is any (floating) palette, the Windows keyboard shortcut to close the program, ALT F4, closes the palette instead.

Not the end of the world by any means, but super annoying especially if you're a two-monitor, floating palettes arranged just so kind of person. Which I am. And I've F4'd a palette more times than I can count, hence my finally coming here to ask for relief. Pretty please.

[_Th]

Maybe I should have called the palettes panels. Would that help?

Every time I close a panel with ALT-F4 instead of the app, like I just did, I exercise language skills that are NSFW.

Serif, if I've done you any good ever (and I have, I promise), I'd like to cash in a few chips.

[Aammppaa]

Agreed. I would expect...

Alt+F4 to close the application, and Ctrl+F4 to close the active document.

@_Th in case you didn't realise, you can save panel layouts via Window > Studio > Add Preset

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, _Th said:

Maybe I should have called the palettes panels. Would that help?

That would help.

Also, though, as you've posted this in the Feedback section, usually there will not be any response from Serif. They generally read this section for planning, but rarely do they post anything as they do not discuss future plans. 

So if you were expecting a response from them, you probably won't get one.

[fde101]

This might qualify as a bug report, however, in which case it is in the wrong place.

[_Th]

7 hours ago, Aammppaa said:

in case you didn't realise, you can save panel layouts via Window > Studio > Add Preset

Thanks. Yes, I always save presets. As retentive as I am about my setup, that's a must.

[debraspicher]

2 hours ago, _Th said:

Thanks. Yes, I always save presets. As retentive as I am about my setup, that's a must.

And there's a shortcut for accessing those so that helps... they do try to help us where they can with keyboarding options...

This is certainly not default behavior for Windows. Ctrl + F4 would be expected to close a window, whereas Alt + F4 would close the program. Ctrl + F4 would be better suited for closing a tab/window, not a panel, I would think semantically...

[_Th]

18 minutes ago, debraspicher said:

there's a shortcut for accessing those

Silly me, had missed that rather obvious fact, so thanks!

 

19 minutes ago, debraspicher said:

Ctrl + F4 would be better suited for closing a tab/window or panel

Personally, I would rather panels never close by keyboard shortcut. Having Tab hide/reveal all the panels/the Studio is perfect for me.

I didn't realize that CTRL-F4 didn't close documents. Hmm.

[debraspicher]

9 minutes ago, _Th said:

Silly me, had missed that rather obvious fact, so thanks!

 

Personally, I would rather panels never close by keyboard shortcut. Having Tab hide/reveal all the panels/the Studio is perfect for me.

I didn't realize that CTRL-F4 didn't close documents. Hmm.

Yes, I agree completely. I miswrote. Sorry about that. This is one of those little things that is out of convention with the rest of the OS. For example, in a web browser, mail program, etc, it'll close tabs until it closes the program. In my IDE, it'll close my coding windows and then start closing projects/navigation/etc... The panel closing may not even be a deliberate convention in this case. It may just be "default" behavior on behalf of the framework since technically to the developer/Affinity itself, the panels are an open window of sorts at root level...