Re: [gnome-love] Intrested in hacking gnome and doing gtop tree view

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:29:46PM +0100 or thereabouts, Calum Benson wrote:
> Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
>
> > I think there should be a possibility to define a shortcut for switching between the tabs. (e.g Ctrl-1, 
> > Ctrl-2 ..., like in PowerShell).
>
> I don't know how you're proposing to label the tabs, but to be
> accessible to vision/mobility-impaired users they should have mnemonics
> anyway, in which case you would be able to switch between them using
> Alt+whatever.  (I know mnemonics on tabs are broken in gtk 1.2, but I
> gather they are/will be fixed for 2.0...)

Well, it couldn't be control, could it? Practically every control
character is used by shells and apps people run in terminals. If I
ran mutt in a gnome-terminal with tab-hacks and control-something
started flinging me through tabs, I'd sulk :) I believe this is
the reason all the control-foo stuff is switched off in gnome-terminal.
If you don't switch it off, sooner or later, people will do ^S to
save something and discover flow-control. It's unlikely they'll
discover ^Q. 

Unfortunately, there are programs with alt-1, alt-2, too. And one
of them is windowmaker (it uses those by default. Whether it should
or not, I am not sure, but it does). And another is something I 
was looking at and realised that I wouldn't be able to run it in
X because it was using alt-1, alt-2 and the rest, and it would
conflict with wmaker. (Does sawfish bind control-1 and alt-1 by
default?)

The solution taken by screen, which is a console app which does
exactly what you want in gnome-terminal anyway, except for having
pretty graphics, is to use ^A to flip things by default, but to
make it remappable.

Telsa