After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 689680 - Ability to change Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown shortcuts
Ability to change Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown shortcuts
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 705648
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-12-05 07:26 UTC by Sébastien Maccagnoni-Munch
Modified: 2015-02-03 16:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Sébastien Maccagnoni-Munch 2012-12-05 07:26:45 UTC
We should be able to change shortcuts for Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDown.

For the moment, it seems their use for "start of paragraph" and "end of paragraph" is somewhat hard-coded in Gedit : why can't we change these ?

Moreover, we can already use the "start" (the NW arrow) and "end" keys to do that (like in all software I know), so Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDown is redundant and may even be considered useless.

I want to be able to use Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDown to "previous document" and "next document", like everywhere else - aren't unified shortcuts part of the GNOME HIG ?
... yes, this bug report is merely a duplicate of the following ones :
#163494
#337298
#339742
#345888
#582133
#630596

In 2005, Paolo Maggi wrote :
> You have to use Alt+Ctrl+PageUP/PageDOWN.
>
> This is the default gtk+ shortcut when a notebook contains a text view.

I think that a normal human does not take this kind of stuff in consideration.
I think a normal human would not think "oh, this is a notebook with a text view I should add Alt to the shortcut I'm using everywhere else"...

Moreover, I can type "Ctrl-PgUp" with only one hand (the right hand) while keeping my left hand on my mouse, but I need two hands to type "Ctrl-Alt-PgDown", so for me (and maybe many other left-handed people) it is not a matter of "pressing another key" but it is a completely different movement for both my hands, compared to what I'm used to.
Comment 1 Sébastien Wilmet 2015-02-03 16:58:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 705648 ***