Ticket #82 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

add hotkeys for navigating tabs

Reported by: akaihola Assigned to:
Priority: moderate Keywords: usability
Cc:

Description

When the focus is in the worksheet editor, the usual Ctrl-Pgup and Ctrl-Pgdn shortcuts for navigating worksheets/libraries don't work.

They do work if you first double-click the title of a tab to move focus there.

Change History

04/02/09 23:28:15 changed by otaylor

Within the context of Linux and GNOME this is not really a a "bug" - in GtkTextView? Control-PageUp? and Control-PageDown? are defined to scroll horizontally by pages. If you test things in gedit, the GNOME text editor you'll find the exact same behavior.

Control-Alt-PageUp/PageDown? are the "try harder to to switch tabs" and work in both.

Obviously outside the context of GNOME, sticking to the GNOME defined keybindings makes less sense - the fact that gedit works that way isn't much of an consolation to the Windows user.

The bindings I actually miss more for switching tabs are Alt-<numbers> - that's normally how I'd switch tabs when I only have a small number of tabs - whether in Firefox, gedit, gnome-terminal, xchat, etc. Supporting that in Reinteract is certainly not hard, but I don't know if usage of <Alt>-numbers is a common thing.

04/04/09 05:50:45 changed by akaihola

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

Thanks for pointing out the Ctrl-Alt shortcuts!

I realize I don't use other tabbed editors or horizontal scrolling hotkeys at all, so you're right of course.

I would consider the behavior of GtkTextView a usability problem, since at least Nautilus, Gnome-Terminal and the Epiphany browser use Ctrl-PageUp/Down for switching tabs (and Firefox of course, but that's not GNOME software). I found a discussion in 2006-07 about this on the GNOME usability list, and it didn't sound like this can be solved, so I'm closing this as wontfix.

Doing the same as gedit and adding menu items for Previous/Next Document in a Documents menu would help users find the correct shortcut. I opened #83 to suggest this.

I agree Alt-Numbers should be enabled for consistency with other apps, but for them to really make sense, the tab titles should show the numbers as well IMO. Otherwise the bindings don't really work beyond three or four tabs since the user has to count to find the correct tab and might as well hit Ctrl-Alt-PageUp/Down repeatedly. See #84.