John Pye wrote:
Ctrl-pgup and ctrl-pgdn are used in OpenOffice Calc (and MS Excel) for moving through worksheet tabs. Might not be so bad.
These are the blessed accelerators for switching tabs in GNOME, as stated by the HIG. It works in Firefox too.
What's the mechanism (if any) of reassigning the default GNOME shortcuts on a per-user basis? If 'next document' could be added as a GNOME-wide shortcut, with a default of ctrl-pgdn, then this could be reassignable by the user? Is this something that gconf does?
You can do this on a per application basis (just activate the related menu item in Prefs → menus and toolbars -- some apps don't support it but feel free to fill a bug). But you won't be able to assign anything to the tab key combinations, AFAIK.