Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 25 Nov 2008, at 08:09, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

> In Ubuntu, we recently had a bug filed about Gedit not using ctrl+t to
> open a new tab[1].  After consulting the HIG, we see that this isn't  
> one
> of the standard keyboard shortcuts.  Should it be?  Tabs are becoming
> increasingly common in applications (even Nautilus has them now), so
> maybe this is something that should be standardized in the next HIG
> revision.  Does standardizing ctrl+t for "new tab" sound like a good
> idea to anyone else?

One issue we need to consider is that 'new tab' is sometimes  
equivalent to (say) 'new document', e.g. in gedit.  So which do you  
use as the shortcut for that, Ctrl+T or Ctrl+N?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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