keyboard shortcuts

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Thu Aug 12 20:24:14 EEST 2004


On Thursday 12 August 2004 15:54, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > I don't think there's a simple solution to this (do our keyboards have
> > not enough keys?) and I don't think this is a topic for xdg@ either (it's
> > not even standardized within KDE applications yet, how could it be
> > standardized across different environments?)
>
> I still don't understand what's wrong with using Ctrl-Tab and
> Ctrl-Shift-Tab like every other toolkit out there. The "Tab" metaphor
> was intentional. I know that in KDE it cycles desktop, but KDE is the
> exception rather than the rule.

Additionally Ctrl+Tab desktop switching is not mirroring one of the advantages 
of Alt-Tab: single invocation switches between the last two windows in use.
Ctrl+Tab really loops through all desktops, IMHO not very usable.

Cheers,
Kevin



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