Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

[Jud Craft <craftjml gmail com>]

On 1/14/10 6:00 PM, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Op dinsdag 12-01-2010 om 20:01 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Jud Craft:
>
> > Due to its ubiquity, the conflict is very evident in GNOME programs,
> > where the behavior is completely different, even on the same Linux
> > operating system - between Epiphany and Firefox, Empathy and Pidgin,
> > Anjuta and MonoDevelop as examples.
>
> I'd like to point out that it's up to Firefox, Pidgin and co. to behave
> like good citizens on the Gnome desktop. Not the other way around!
>
> regards,

Firefox was never called a GNOME app, either -- it's a cross-platform 
app that uses GTK.  It's not Firefox's fault that GNOME distros always 
include a copy of it.

If GNOME used Ctrl-Shift-X for Copy, we'd all blame GNOME for being 
pointlessly arbitrary.

The real problem here is the conflict with Ctrl-Tab for keyboard 
navigation, not blaming applications for disobeying GNOME conventions.