GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 416110
Tabs in GNOME
Last modified: 2020-12-04 18:20:47 UTC
I have found that opening a new tab is often different: * Epiphany: Ctrl+T * Gedit: Ctrl+N (new document) * Gnome-Terminal: SHIFT+Ctrl+T I think this is really bad. I can understand we have different history but I really think this is the same action and so should have the same keyboard shortcut. What do you think? Maybe we even have more shortcuts for new tabs in GNOME? Other information: as talked about in usability list.
See also bug #87764. I think the lack of HIG advice here was originally down to our hope for the arrival of a tabbed window manager that would prevent applications having to implement their own tabs. However, that's obviously not going to happen anytime soon, and tabbed applications aren't going to go away either, so we probably do need to come up with something here.
Created attachment 142426 [details] [review] CTRL+N to CTRL+T Shortcut Change Hey guys - this has also been talked about downstream (LP #301942) so I made a quick patch to change the 'new' shortcut to CTRL+T. I have attached the debdiff to this post.
gnome-terminal cannot use Ctrl-T to open a new terminal tab because Ctrl-T is used by the terminal itself. It's the same thing as Tab not working in a text area because Tab is used in the text area itself so you have to use Ctrl-Tab to move focus.
Created attachment 148469 [details] [review] Use both ctrl-t and ctrl-n as shortkey combination I think both ctrl-t and ctrl-n should be a short key combination. Ctrl-t for all people thinking in tabs metaphors and ctrl-n for all people thinking in document metaphors.
In Gedit it breaks a plugin for indentation. What would be the benefits and downfalls of changing that hotkey? If we leave it how it is we do not have to retrain people using the indent plugin. And people can figure out what the hotkey is by looking at the file menu. However if we change it how would we communicate to the users of the plugin that there plug-in no longer works. If we want to implement this I say we would need to check to see if the plugin Indent Lines is enabled.
Ctrl-N stands for »New Document«. There is no need to change it.
Here is short summary of the following problem: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17763/
Tagging this as something we need to look at for the GNOME 3.x HIG/pattern library.
Tab shortcuts comparison for different graphic systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts#Tab_management
Hey, I was wondering if a decision had been made on this issue.There seems to be a patch attached to this bug report. Has anyone had a look at it yet?
I've added some details on standard keyboard shortcuts for tabs. There's maybe more to add, but this is a start. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-devel-docs/commit/?id=be297f3decbcd63228fac0bb43cdb81fec3c1909