Re: Quick gripe about gedit key bindings



zOn Tue, 2007-07-31 at 12:17 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 13:15 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> 
> > >Ctrl+Alt+PgUp/PgDn is actually the only shortcut that's guaranteed to
> > >work "across the rest of the Gnome tabbed interface UI"-- Ctrl+PgUp/ Dn
> > >sometimes fails when the focused widget eats it to do something  else,
> > >which resulted in lots of bug reports.  That's why the Alt  variant was
> > >added to the notebook widget, and IMHO should really be  the one that's
> > >documented wherever we document that sort of thing  (Accessibility
> > >Guide?)
> > 
> > Valid reasons indeed.  Should there be a bug raised on gnome-terminal
> > then since it _only_ allows Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn?
> 
> Well, the terminal is a bit of a special case because its shortcuts are
> redefinable, and you can't currently assign multiple shortcuts to the
> same function.
> 
> But if we were to document Ctrl+Alt+PgUp/PgDn as the default shortcut as
> suggested above, then yes, it should be the default in gnome-terminal
> too.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 

I'm very much for consistency but I feel that Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn is a
'better' shortcut because it's simpler. In what cases does a widget stop
this from working? Do we need these?

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