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Status: Verified
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Closed: Jul 2016
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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No keyboard shortcut to close windows in overview mode

Project Member Reported by varkha@chromium.org, Jul 7 2016

Issue description

OS: Chrome OS

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Press F5 to get in overview mode
(2) Press [Right] to select the first item

What is the expected output?
Being able to use keyboard to close windows.

What do you see instead?
Need to use a mouse / touchpad / touch screen to close windows.

It would be easy to wire [backspace] keyboard accelerator once a selector appears to closing a currently selected window. Not sure about discoverability but we could put some first-use UI. What do you think?
 
Discoverability for power user features, including shortcuts isn't important. It should be listed under the shortcut view but doesn't warrant UI affordance.

In term of the shortcut itself, I don't think backspace is used anywhere for close, we  should use something consistent with what we have today to close a window/tab which I think is Ctrl+w (correct me if I'm wrong)
I like the idea of using Ctrl+W to close the focused window in Overview mode. Agreed that we don't need any first-run UI to explain it, since it's a power user feature.
Labels: -Pri-3 M-54 Pri-2
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
Status: Started (was: Assigned)
Draft CL at https://codereview.chromium.org/2131603004/.
Status: Fixed (was: Started)
Status: Verified (was: Fixed)

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