Re: Keyboar accelerators for notebooks.

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Chema Celorio <chema ximian com> writes:

> Some days ago i was discussing in #gnome with the gtk+ hackers adding a
> keyboard accelerator to a gtknotebook. The consensus among them was that
> since you are going to be able to share accelerators between widgets, we
> should be just adding a mnemonic to the label of each gtknotebookpage.
> 
> I received this week a patch for gedit that allows you to switch between
> documents opened while in MDI mode = notebook by hitting Ctrl+Page Up
> and Ctrl+Page Down. My first reaction to this was why those keystrokes.
> Well, Ctrl+Page Up & Ctrl+Page Down are specified in the CUA (Common
> User Access) standard as the accelerators for notebooks. I tried it in
> windows and it does work there.
> 
> I'd like to trow the idea of considering adding this accelerators at the
> gtk+ level. I know that this is once of those things that very few users
> will use just because it is hard to find out that it does that. We can
> add an item in the GNOME hint app that runs at startup. On the other
> hand, adding the accelator is harmless.

They are listed in:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53612

So, unless someone has good reasons otherwise, that is what what we are
hoping someone will submit a patch for.

Regards,
                                        Owen