Re: [Usability] tab navigation standardization

[Pete Setchell <pete setchell goodtechnology com>]

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 22:20, Karim A Nassar wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Stephen Waters wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > I prefer the Shift+<arrow> approach, but I support any initiative to
> > make them the same for every app.
> > -s
> > 
> 
> Since Alt-TAB usually cycles through windows, Ctrl-TAB seems like a nice
> choice for cycling through tabs. GAIM already does this...
> 
> -- Karim Nassar

Good idea -  Ctl-tab is often used in Windows to switch between
documents in MDI. I know most Adobe apps honor this and I'm fairly sure
MS Office does as well.

Can anybody think of a good reason for treating tabs differently to
(eg.) multiple docs open in one word instance?

-- 
Pete Setchell
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Good Technology, London