Escape to close a window?

Perhaps there's a bit of a slippery slope for what is a "standard windowing system" keybinding vs what is "application specific" keybinding?

For example with some applications, zoom in and out is CTRL-+ and CTRL--, like with Firefox. But with GIMP, it's just + and -. Yet for the "graphics/ web developer" + and - would probably be the more "standard". Should "zoom" be a window manager standard 'event'.

I vote +1 for window manager/ desktop-environment 'zoom' event.

I guess someone ought to raise the matter with freedesktop.org to discuss such things.

Many UI gripes (inconsistencies) can be levelled at the libre desktops these days, but it's getting better each year (eg OpenOffice writer, at least the version I've got installed which may have been native download, therefore not a 'packaged for my distro' version, does not honour my system/ gnome setting for external application 'Browser' - instead, oowriter always opens up firefox when I click a link. And I couldn't google any way to change this behaviour, so I currently guess it is compiled in).