Comment 8 for bug 563226

Indeed, rereading this (hah, sleeping helped) I understand you better, too. Sorry about my initial "stifle all disagreement!" reaction, in which I think I forgot a lot of what you said. It was no doubt painful to read, as it's full of strange ideas...

Come to think of it, a quick Close All Windows makes a lot of sense for spatial Nautilus, and that's probably where the unusual Ctrl Shift W (in File>Close all Windows) came from. Just changing that to Ctrl Q and shifting the option's position in the File menu could do it, (I don't think we need to expect anyone to have many tabs open usually), but it wouldn't hurt to see what upstream thinks about changing keyboard shortcuts.

The thing that got me was designing around Firefox, since it tends to not be well integrated. Patching GNOME to fit Firefox means a lot more work (and a lot more ugly, painful, risky divergence) than patching Firefox to fit GNOME. In this case, though, it appears Nautilus is the single exception.

I'm going to edit your bug title to clarify, just in case any other maniacs like me dive on it in an inbox-cleaning frenzy. Hope that's okay!

Fun trivia: MacOS's Finder, until the latest version, used to have a Quit option that, when pressed, would actually stop the entire application (including your desktop). As long as we don't do that, everything's cool :)