Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wasatch!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!hiatus.dec.com!tle.enet.dec.com!jnelson From: jnelson@tle.enet.dec.com (Jeff E. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Yet another System 7.0 wishlist item Message-ID: <1397@hiatus.dec.com> Date: 10 Aug 89 18:18:27 GMT References: <186@dbase.UUCP> <18250.24DBBD91@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Sender: news@hiatus.dec.com Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 23 In article <186@dbase.UUCP>, cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes: > ... And why not have > Shutdown as a Command-Q equivalent on the File Menu, as well? > > --Cy-- Because if you press Command-Q twice within an application --entirely possible, given keybounce and applications which react slowly (i.e. take a while to give feedback that indicates the keypress was seen, so you press it again)--you will accidentally shut down your Macintosh. Shutdown is really a very special operation and you don't want to trigger it by accident. If you want to assign a keypress sequence to invoke shutdown, it is better if you choose something other than Command-Q. -Jeff E. Nelson -Digital Equipment Corporation -Internet: jnelson@tle.enet.dec.com - -or- jnelson@tle.dec.com - -or- jnelson%tle.dec@decwrl.dec.com -Affiliation given for identfication purposes only