Re: Split/dual pane view again (but this time with code)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 15:20 +0100, Holger Berndt wrote:

> >And for moving focus between panes, GNOME/gtk already has a standard
> >shortcut (F6: next pane, Shift-F6: previous pane).  So inventing a new
> >one, not to mention over-riding the standard usage of Tab, wouldn't be
> >recommended.
> 
> Well, Tab is the standard key for walking through the focus chain. The
> question is just what the focus chain should contain. The draft that I
> coded up so far sets a focus chain containing only the left and right
> panes in split view mode. That's what people who used a split-view
> filebrowser before most likely expect.

It is however not what users of Gtk+ applications expect. They expect
all focusable widgets to be in the focus chain.