Re: On Ctrl+tab

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 20:15 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 01:51 +0000, Iain Nicol wrote:
> > Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 18:57 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > 
> > >> As a user, I tend to agree with that sentiment.  While I understand the
> > >> usefulness of ctrl+tab, it's not as handy and useful as rotating
> > >> between tabs. So, what can we do about it?
> > > 
> > > Doesn't Ctrl + PageUp/PageDown accomplish the same thing? That's what I
> > > use to switch from tab to tab.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this isn't universal.  Gedit, for example, uses Ctrl + Alt 
> > + PageUp/PageDown.
> > 
> > (And FWIW, I'd like to be able to use Ctrl+Alt.)
> 
> I'm pretty sure GtkNotebook implements Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown
> automatically.  Is there some reason gedit overrides this?

I don't think it's explicitly overriding it, it's just that the
innermost widget wins for key bindings; and in a TextView
Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown are start-of-line and end-of-line.

- Owen