Desktop-app: Close the window (but not the app) when pressing Ctrl + W

Feature Proposal
,
1

Expected behavior

Pressing Ctrl + W closes the window of the desktop-app, but not the entire app, like clicking the close-button of the window.

Actual behavior

Pressing Ctrl + W does nothing.

Ctrl + Q does close the app entirely, so that notifications of received messages cannot be shown immediately; which is often preferable for me, but it does depend on the situation.

Many other apps that i use (for example: GNOME-apps, Element, Thunderbird, and Firefox) close the current window/tab when pressing Ctrl + W. Element can remain open in the background when it was closed with Ctrl + W, but Ctrl + Q closes it entirely.

Using Alt + F4 works like i requested, but, at least for me, it is less practical than clicking the close-button, due to the inconvenient placement of those keys (which is even less convenient on a keyboard which has another key, like Alt Gr, instead of a second Alt-key).

2

IDK IDK. In the next release we’re gonna have “Escape to close the chat”, maybe that’s gonna be enough to cover your use case?
And otherwise I’d say that Ctrl+W should close the chat and not the whole window (given that we want to have the Ctrl+W shortcut at all).

3

I do not want the chat to be closed, but the window. When i open Delta Chat again, it should show the same chat as when closing, like clicking on the close-button. Just a more convenient way to close the window with keys instead of a mouse-cursor.