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More info here, section C-1: http://ui.netbeans.org/usability/ws_study/#conclusions Quoting recommendation: There could exist tooltip above the Output window (or it's Titlebar at least) and it will contain information about ESC shortcut. Pending: - applies to all sliding windows or just Output? Why? - implementation is unfortunately problematic: either winsys will modify shortcut of foreign top component (which will work only sometimes) or top component should modify its tooltip based on its sliding/non-sliding state. In this case top component will need 46340 first.
Still valid IMHO.