HIG: tabwidgets

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 10 March 2006 13:53, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:15:45AM -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > Next Tab		Ctrl+Left_Arrow	Yes
> > Previous Tab	Ctrl+Right_Arrow	Yes
>
> this directly conflicts with text editors' use of those. just like
> shift-arrow and shift-ctrl-arrow would.
> ... and alt-arrow is already taken for konq's history navigation ... too
> bad, we're screwed. ;)

we could switch this to Ctrl-Arrow, so it harmonizes with text editors.

the downside here is that it would work if the location bar has focus, but 
that's pretty  minor.

> i for one would not complain if alt-arrow was used for tab switching,
> alt-shift-arrow (or even alt-ctrl-arrow, even though i slighly dislike
> the idea of _any_ app not controlling the session using alt-ctrl keys,
> but this concern is slightly mitigated by keyboards with a win key which
> can be reserved for the "system") for tab reordering and ctrl-arrow for
> history navigation, but i guess this would impose "certain"
> compatibility problems.

it would make us keyboard shortcut incompatible with firefox (and IE?).. 

though we already are it seems... Ctrl+[ and Ctrol+] in firefox is also 
history nav... 

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Aaron J. Seigo
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