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Bug 314646 - Ctrl-Tab to change between recent tabs
Ctrl-Tab to change between recent tabs
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.10.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
: 607201 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-08-27 11:55 UTC by Andrey Tatarinov
Modified: 2013-06-23 18:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Andrey Tatarinov 2005-08-27 11:55:38 UTC 
Almost every modern tabs-enabled editor uses Ctrl-Tab for moving between recent
tabs.

Gedit should be consistent with this de-facto standard.

Other information:
Comment 1 John Pye 2005-10-06 13:04:44 UTC 
Yes! second that. Please change the ctrl-tab key binding to this more standard
behaviour.
Comment 2 Paolo Borelli 2005-12-28 16:55:45 UTC 
How does this play with the accessibility use of ctrl+Tab?

Personally I am not opposed to it[1], but I'd like to hear the opinion of accessibility/usability people.

setting usability keyword.


[1] If we override ctrl+tab I'd much rather use tab and ctrl+tab to indent/unindent :)
Comment 3 Paolo Maggi 2006-03-04 16:46:22 UTC 
We decided to use Tab and Ctrl+Tab for mass (un)indentation.
To move between tabs in gedit you can already use Alt+[0-9] and Cltr+Alt+Page[Up|Down].

Closing as WONTFIX.
Comment 4 Paolo Borelli 2006-03-04 17:03:26 UTC 
Paolo, note that mass indent will use tab and shift+tab.

The problem with ctrl tab is that is the generic focus movement keybing, which is fundamental for accessibility reasons.

This has come up recently on usability list http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2006-March/msg00014.html

beside if it ever this decision changes, it should really be done at the GtkNotebook level not by gedit.
Comment 5 Christian Persch 2010-01-17 12:13:02 UTC 
*** Bug 607201 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***