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



On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 21:08 -0500, Philip Ganchev wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
> >> > If we're creating guidelines, I'd like to suggest ctrl+page-up and
> >> > ctrl+page-down for switching tabs. AFAIK, the only tabbed application
> >> > that doesn't currently follow that (with the obvious exception of
> >> > Gnome Terminal) is Anjuta.
> >>
> >> This never worked for me in Gedit 2.22.x either.
> >> Don't have a 2.24/2.25 handy though.
> >
> > Gedit uses Ctrl+Alt+PgUp/PgDn to switch tabs, since Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn is
> > already used to move to the beginning/end of a paragraph. There is a
> > (closed) bug about this:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160747
> 
> Another standard shortcut for that is Control+Tab/Control+Shift+Tab.
> Why doesn't Gedit support that?

^Tab in GNOME is supposed to act like Tab for switching widgets in cases
where tab would just insert a tab.  Then again, I *guess* that could
kind of fit into that category...

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Mackenzie Morgan
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