Re: [gedit-list] Switching of tabs with Ctrl+Tab and "internal recency list"

[Bobby Jack <bobbykjack yahoo co uk>]

Some observations from a developer + gedit user (but
not a gedit developer):

* CTRL+TAB currently switches between 'panels' (not
sure of the correct term), such as the toolbar, the
sidepane, and the tabbed document. This is, I think, a
global Gnome shortcut, although it doesn't seem - to
me - to be implemented very well; there are several
shortcomings. Tab-switching would, therefore, have to
be implemented with a different shortcut ('super' +
TAB?)

* I share your view that switching between recent
tabs, much like switching between recent windows, is a
'must have'. Before I discovered the sidepane, gedit
was nigh on useless for the kind of development I do
(many files open at once).

* If the application weren't tabbed, this wouldn't be
a problem. What 'best-practice' documents exist for
Gnome's handling of tabs? Has there been a unified
decision that tabs are 'good', multiple windows are
'bad'? Is there any work in progress looking to
address the problems associated with multiple windows,
that have driven the usage of tabs?

- Bobby

--- renergy <adam purkrt net> wrote:

> 
> Hello there,
> 
> Shortly - in my opinion:
> 
> Ctrl+Tab should (in Gedit) switch between tabs like
> Alt+Tab switches between
> windows on (e.g.) Metacity!
> 
> 
> 
> I mean fast switching between last two tabs (~files)
> one worked with.
> 
> About a year ago I've asked about that functionality
> on some forum.
> 
> Somebody replied - use Ctrl+Alt+PageUp/PageDown. But
> this switches
> (primitively) only to the next/previous tab! It does
> not have an inner
> memory, inner list of tabs, in which the tabs are in
> the order reflecting
> how recently they were used.
> 
> When one has multiple files opened and switches
> frequently between two of
> them, it's totally inconvenient that one has to
> repeatedly press the
> combination of three keys and watch the upper bar to
> see which file is
> selected throughout the process! Especially when in
> some other editors it
> suffices to press an easily accessible combination
> of two keys (Ctrl+Tab)
> only once!
> 
> Another suggested possibility was Alt+[number], but
> again, why i would have
> to
> * find and remember two numbers first (moreover the
> number corresponding to
> the actual tab is uneasy to find!)
> * find them on the keyboard then
> whenever I want to switch between two tabs?
> 
> 
> But what I really cannot understand, was the remark
> on the end of the reply
> a year ago - something like "Windows habits die
> hard, huh?".
> 
> I'd say, that GOOD, CONVENIENT habits "die hard"!
> 
> 
> The shortcut Ctrl+Tab can be easily pressed with one
> hand, the keys are
> rather large and easily hitted - all in all a very
> convenient shortcut for a
> very convenient function. It's also analogous to
> "Alt+Tab", a well
> established shortcut for the switching of active
> windows.
> 
> But the answer said something like "noo, it's
> reserved for something else".
> 
> 
> Could, please. someone participating in the
> development of Gedit consider
> implementning this functionality and shortcut in
> Gedit?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your attention.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> 
> PS: I also don't understand, why Firefox lacks the
> "recency list". Ctrl+Tab
> there switches only to the next tab.
> -- 
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