Re: On Ctrl+tab
- From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>
- To: Jud Craft <craftjml gmail com>
- Cc: usability gnome org, gtk-devel-list gnome org, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: On Ctrl+tab
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:25:37 -0500
Hi Jud,
Thanks for bringing this up.
How about: those who care come up with a replacement combination for focus
navigation in GTK+, and a patch to implement ctrl+tab to change tabs, and
submit that for upstream inclusion and see if we get any substantial (other
than "breaks back-compat")?
Personally I think it would be a significant compatibility step forward.
behdad
On 01/12/2010 08:01 PM, Jud Craft wrote:
> I hate to force open an old topic, but this recently came up as an
> Ubuntu launchpad bug for their Paper Cuts project. [1]
>
> The essence of the problem is that while Ctrl-Tab is reserved by GTK for
> keyboard navigation, it has also been claimed by many popular
> applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux for tabbed-document navigation.
>
> 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.
>
> And arguably, Firefox and Pidgin are more popular than GTK and even
> other GTK applications (note that Pidgin itself is one).
>
> Behdad Esfahbod brought this up on desktop-devel-list, but the thread
> previously lost momentum. However, aside from "continue as is", nothing
> was ever resolved.
>
>
>
> 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/504405
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