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

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 2 Dec 2008, at 16:12, Calum Benson wrote:

> 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?

(Apologies, just coming to this late and I see somebody else mentioned  
this already...)

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