Re: Switching Between Applications in Gnome 3

[Luis Menina <liberforce freeside fr>]

Le 19/06/2013 12:56, Luis Menina a écrit :
> Le 18/06/2013 10:40, bugs a écrit :
> > What can be improved is the key-combination for switching between the
> > tabs. For a weird, unknown reason, we don't rely on Ctrl+Tab for switching
> > between tabs in most applications. That will fit much more in the
> > expectations of the users, than Ctrl+PGUP/PGDN or even worse
> > Ctrl+Shift+PGUP/PGDN. Furthermore it will follow the convention of Alt+Tab
> > and is also more "keyboard-friendly". Hitting Ctrl+Tab is easier than
> > searching Ctrl+PGUP/PGDN, especially since a lot of manufacturers started
> > to move around PGUP/PGDN (most ot them seem to search a ideal place for
> > it...).
> >
> > e.g. Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab could be used aside of Ctrl+PGUP/PGDN, which
> > won't hurt people how are already aware of the current behaviour of GNOME.
>
> For me Ctrl+PGUP/PGDN is to browse in order the tabs. Alt+Tab has always
> carried more a "recently used", or "history" semantic, so I don't think
> they're the same.

Just saw you're right, some applications are already implementing
Ctrl+Tab that way, like Firefox and Thunderbird. Looks like I have an
unusual expectation on the semantics bewind the Tab key.