keyboard shortcuts

Pat Suwalski pat at suwalski.net
Thu Aug 12 20:58:32 EEST 2004


Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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.

This is only because windows don't have an order. If Ctrl-Tab switched 
tabs based on order used, it would be chaos.

However, the topology is nice:
- Alt-Tab: cycle window
- Ctrl-Tab: cycle tab in window
- Tab: cycle widget in tab in window.

Sometimes "right" is what everyone else does, especially if the goal is 
inter-desktop interoperability/consistency.

--Pat



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