keyboard shortcuts

[Calum Benson]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:49, Joseph Wenninger wrote:


> If CTRL+TAB should to be considered for switching tabwidgets in the
> future, it is okay for me too, as long as it works in both big and
> probably other smaller desktops per default in a consistent way.

In GNOME, at least, Ctrl-Tab already has at least two uses[1] that could
conflict with using it to switch notebook tabs, which is why we
originally went with the more universal Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn (the only
shortcut that worked in all Java, Mozilla and Windows tabs IIRC, at
least at that time).  What sensible keybindings could we use for these
other functions instead?

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] Moving focus out of a control that consumes Tab itself (e.g. a text
editing widget), and forcing the tab sequence to include selectable
static labels[2]-- both of which could easily be required on a tabbed
notebook page.

[2] I don't personally like this use of Ctrl-Tab; it was introduced
because there wasn't time to fix bugs introduced by the original
proposal, and I hope it doesn't stick.  See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138085.

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