Re: [Usability] tab navigation standardization

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

tor 2001-12-27 klockan 22.21 skrev Stephen Waters:
> Standardized tab acceleration keys. E.g.:
> 
> multi-gnome-terminal uses Shift+<arrow> to navigate opened tabs. 
> 
> In galeon, the "Tab" menu says "Ctrl+Prior" and "Ctrl+Next"... uh, I
> don't have "Prior" or "Next" keys on my keyboard! Eventually I figured
> out they meant "Ctrl+PgUp" and "Ctrl+PgDn". See galeon bug 67606.

Yeah. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57394 is about how we
ended up using Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDn. What was used before was
Shift+Ctrl+< and Shift+Ctrl+>, which had severe localization problems
since the < and > keys have different modifiers themselves on different
keyboard layouts, which rendered the shortcuts unusable on many layouts.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63700 is about the issue of
gtk+ calling PageUp "Prior" and PageDn "Next".


> I prefer the Shift+<arrow> approach, but I support any initiative to
> make them the same for every app.

I have no strong feelings about these shortcuts, as long as they work on
different layouts and don't cause any conflict.


Christian