[Usability] Tab Shortcut behavior

[Romulo <abra185 gmail com>]

Hi there Gnome Usability people!

   My name is Romulo and im actually a gnome lover and a developer. Some days ago i decided to gave Empathy a try, because i was tired of pidgin. During the initial hours of use i noticed that when i pressed the Next Tab shortcut with the last tab selected it didnt cycled to the first tab, same issue hapenned with the first tab selected (pressing previous tab shortcut). Since nautilus, gnome-terminal, gvim and gedit (at least in my Ubuntu 9.04) do that (cycling), i though about the possibility to make it real in empathy too. It took me some mins to write a patch and attach it to the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589263 . Unfortunately it didnt get a commit because it doesnt look the "standard" or "expected" way of behavior. After some discussions with dino on #usability we though that the best way of knowing how to handle it would be asking the usability people, so here i am. Hope i didnt bothered and im looking forward to have an answer from you guys. Thanks!

Sincerely,
Rômulo Fernandes.