Re: [Usability] tabs in GNOME

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 7 Mar 2007, at 20:37, Thilo Pfennig wrote:

> Hello,
> I have found that opening a new tab is often different:
>
> * Epiphany: Ctrl+T
> * Gedit: Ctrl+N (new document)
> * Gnome-Terminal: SHIFT+Ctrl+T
>
> I think this is really bad. I can understand we have different  
> history but I really think this is the same action and so should  
> have the same keyboard shortcut. What do you think? Maybe we even  
> have more shortcuts for new tabs in GNOME?

Would appreciate it if you opened a bug against the HIG about this...  
I suspect the reason we didn't originally specify more about tab  
behaviour is because we didn't want to encourage their use (hoping  
that a tabbed window manager would come along at some point), but  
it's fairly obvious they haven't gone away and probably won't anytime  
soon.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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