On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 15:37 -0700, Tyler Brainerd wrote: > I'll try to be brief. Currently, alt tab moves between windows. > Ctrl-Tab moves between tabs in some programs, not all. Special (Win > Key) and tab does nothing. > It would kinda make more sense if we did this: Ctrl-Tab moves between > tabs, system wide. Special and tab moves between windows (the old > standard alt-tab) and alt tab moves between workspaces. General to > specific, vice versa. > > I know it would suck to change up the alt-tab control, but we've got > three keys which are (generally) in a row, and we use only two, and > could make all three useful and make sense. >
We can't really rely on the super key (as others have mentioned). However, since switching between desktops is already available through to Ctrl + Alt + [Arrow], we could add Super + Tab as a way to cycle through desktops in the same way Alt + Tab cycles through windows. As for Ctrl + Tab, the only app I know of that supports that is Firefox. Also, Ctrl + Tab has other uses (see link below). This does raise an interesting point though: we should probably aim for consistency for handling tabs (and shortcut keys in general). My quick test yields a few different approaches: Terminal: Focus: Ctrl + PgUp and Ctrl + PgDown Move: Ctrl + Shift + PgUp and Ctrl + Shift + PgDown Create: Ctrl + Shift + T Close: Ctrl + Shift + W New window: Ctrl + Shift + N Gedit: Focus: Ctrl + Alt + PgUp and Ctrl + Alt + PgDown Move: (can't find a way to do this) Create: Ctrl + N Close: Ctrl + W Close all: Ctrl + Shift + W New window: (can't find a way to do this) Close window: Ctrl + Q Firefox: Focus: Ctrl + PgUp and Ctrl + PgDown or Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab Move: (can't find a way to do this) Create: Ctrl + T Close: Ctrl + W New window: Ctrl + N Close window: Ctrl + Shift + W Close application: Ctrl + Q It would be nice to standardise these (and other apps). There's already a relevant section in the GNOME HIG: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-keyboard.html.en but it doesn't say anything about tabs (although it does mention documents). _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
