Shortcut for closing Signal

[moritzlerch]

• I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates
• I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package.

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Bug Description

A lot of other apps support the shortcut-command Ctrl + W or Ctrl + Q to close the app. I looked through the source code of Signal Desktop and found something corresponding. There already is a shortcut to minimize the window but none for closing Signal. The Shortcut for minimizing work's perfectly fine. I'm using the German version of Signal but that shouldn't have any effect.
The minimizing shortcut also has a lot more code involved in the project whereas the closing shortcut doesn't seem to be finished. I can't tell.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Press Ctrl + W

Actual Result:
Nothing happens.

Expected Result:
App should close.

Screenshots

No shortcut for closing:

There is a shortcut for minimizing:

Platform Info

Signal Version: 5.32.0
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

[maitra]

Certainly for the linux version, Ctr+Q shuts down Signal.

[kleinfreund]

This shouldn't have been closed in my opinion. On Windows, there is no shortcut for quitting Signal. Alt+F4 closes Signal, but it's still running and accessible via the system tray (task bar).

Quitting Signal should be possible via the keyboard without resorting to Alt-F to invoke the File menu and using the arrow keys to navigate to the Quit item.

[phenry9999]

I agree with @kleinfreund completely. There should either be a setting (like in Teams, Slack, Discord) to minimize when closing, or to just outright close and done with it...not having to go looking around to see if it's still running in some dark corner (using up vital memory!).

[ghost]

Enabling Ctrl+W to quit Signal would standardize the action which is used widely in most operating systems. In any event, it's confusing having two actions, both of which close the window but only one shuts down the app. Ctrl+W should be available to shut down the app. Any option to do otherwise shoult be set up in a Preference setting like "Keep Signal running in the background when I close (quit, whatever) the application" along with a checkbox to activate or not.

This whole business of running in the background (I run Ubuntu linux) is something that needs significant transparency and not relegated to an accidental use of shortcut keys. I still don't know what happens when I click the close box (X at the top right of the Signal window). There's no indication at all if Signal is running or not. And I have the X, Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+W to deal with.

If there's any doubt to all this, just give the user their own settings and let them decide what to use for all these possibilities. It's not user friendly to assign fixed oddball shortcuts to frequently used actions.

[mkurz]

Alt+F4 should quit signal.
CTRL+W should not quit Signal, but close the windows and leave Signal running in the systray.