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Bug 609330 - Not showing document tabs in fullscreen hinders keyboard navigation between documents
Not showing document tabs in fullscreen hinders keyboard navigation between d...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-02-08 14:31 UTC by Stefano Teso
Modified: 2010-03-12 22:11 UTC
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Description Stefano Teso 2010-02-08 14:31:56 UTC
Setting the fullscreen mode when editing multiple documents, the document tabs are hidden.

This is particularly annoying whenever I have more than 3/4 documents opened, because I cannot remember their relative position: when not in fullscreen, I use the tabs' labels as a reference to pick the document I want by using Ctrl+Alt+arrows; but it gets difficult in fullscreen as the labels are not shown.

Showing the labels in fullscreen would follow the same behavior as gnome-terminal.

(Alas, in that case it is pretty useless, as the tab label is not a useful indicator of the tab's contents, and takes up sooo much screen space :-) ).

A possible solution would be to have 3 states: Normal Window, Fullscreen with tabs, Fullscreen without tabs. Pressing F11 would cycle between them.

(FYI: I actually am able to produce this behavior in Debian unstable, due to a bug in the way F11/fullscreen key is handled: just bind Shift+F11 -- or whatever -- to metacity's fullscreen key and combine the usage of F11 and Shift+F11 to obtain the wanted results... Ubuntu lenny doesn't allow to set the metacity fullscreen key through gnome-keyboard-shortcuts app anyway, so it won't work on all distributions. However, being a bug, ideally it shouldn't work at all. ;-) )

Thanks.
Comment 1 Stefano Teso 2010-02-08 14:41:04 UTC
Of course, showing tabs would somehow conflict with the hidden/drop-down toolbar.

A possible -- albeit ugly -- solution would be to use bottom labels, just like the latest nautilus (2.29.x onwards.)

Another solution would be to resize the fullscreen toolbar reactivity region to just a few pixels: it would be still easily reachable, and would interfere ress with tab browsing/selection.
Comment 2 Garrett Regier 2010-03-12 22:08:04 UTC
pbor: yes, it is intentional
pbor: gedit fullscreen is meant to be a full text view without any distraction
Comment 3 C de-Avillez 2010-03-12 22:11:48 UTC
Closing NOTABUG per comments from pbor.