On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:49 +0100, Holger Berndt wrote:
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:33:13 +0100 Alexander Larsson wrote:
I'd rather pick another key shortcut that is not used currently. As I
commented in another thread, such a shortcut is useful even in the
no-split-view case where it could set focus on the view, independent
on where focus was before. Not sure what the best shortcut would be
though.
Ctrl-Tab?
I'd be very happy with this one.
10.2.4.2. Standard Widget Navigation Shortcut Keys in
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-keyboard.html.en
lists some interesting keys, like:
F6, Shift+F6 - Give focus to next/previous pane in a GtkPaned window
F8 - Give focus to splitter bar in paned window
Giving focus to the other pane in a GtkPane is not enough, because each
pane consists of a VBox layout containing the location bar and the
notebook, so I really want to focus the directory view, and not the
location bar, so one would have to fiddle around with the focus chain
again.
I don't mean to use these, just be "similar" to them.
Maybe we could use F4 or something for switching between views /
focusing the view.
I'd like Ctrl-Tab much better. For my personal gut feeling it's much
more intuitive than e.g. F4 (which I connect to closing things).
Ctrl-Tab is kinda iffy to hit though, compared to e.g. F4.
Tab is already closely connected to focusing things, be it Alt-Tab for
the WM, or Tab alone for the focus chain. I can very well see Ctrl-Tab
become "focus the most important thing of the current window, or
iterate between equally important things if you're already there".
Well, Ctrl-Tab already has a different meaning in Gtk+. Not that this
can't change or anything, but its a point against it.