Re: [Usability]HIG suggestion- alt+<num> shortcuts for tabbed/MD interfaces

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 13:16, hobbit aloss ukuu org uk wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:36:35PM -0400 or thereabouts, Luis Villa wrote:
> > For some time, galeon and xchat have used alt+<num> to switch to tab
> > <num>. The new gnome-terminal has the ability to add this as a
> > keybinding, and otherwise I'm unaware of any uses of these shortcuts
> > elsewhere. [Sawfish may use them, but I don't believe that is by
> 
> Window Maker uses them by default to switch workspace and has done for 
> years. I use this in wmaker with GNOME all the time. 

OK, so, at some point, we have to say that we can't care about non-gnome
apps[1], esp. windowmanagers. But maybe that point is not now. I don't
know.
Luis

[1]terminal apps being the obvious exception here