Re: On Ctrl+tab

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> What about Ctrl-Up/Down for start/end of paragraph? That would be
> similar to Ctrl-Left/Right for navigation by word (and for fans of
> consistency, I believe Windows paragraph navigation is typically done
> this way).

FWIW, the original gtk keybinding spec was put together after fairly 
extensively researching what Windows and Java/Swing did (those being the 
two platforms with the most extensive/popular keybindings, at the time).

For gtk, we tried to strike the best balance we could between not 
throwing away peoples' prior keynav knowledge, ironing out their 
internal inconsistencies, and filling in the gaps as logically as we 
could for things that they missed or didn't exist in their platforms.

If anyone wants to revisit (or better still, update) that raw data, you 
can find it here:
<http://web.archive.org/web/20080527084152/http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/keyboardnav.html>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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