Part of the problem is that Windows users don't know about Ctrl+Page Up. Windows only uses Ctrl+Tab. And since everything else in the windows world also does (eg., Firefox, Chrome, Opera, all Windows programs, etc), users never learn that Ctrl+Page Up exists. I just saw a bug report somewhere else for a Linux application where the user was requesting a Ctrl+Tab shortcut and the developer told them about Ctrl+Page Up and the user had no idea this shortcut existed because he was a Windows veteran and thought Ctrl+Tab was the universal shortcut for moving between tabs.
A big impetus for this bug report is the fact that with Precise Ubuntu has essentially incorporated almost all the Windows keyboard-shortcuts into Ubuntu. Since every other shortcut is going to be virtually identical to Windows, people will assume Ctrl+Tab will move them between tabs. And when it doesn't they will assume no shortcut exists to do this (they will not consider that another keyboard shortcut exists to do the same thing). Food for thought. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/944094 Title: Ctrl+Tab does not move focus through tabs in dialog boxes Status in GNOME Control Center: New Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When interacting with a dialog box in Ubuntu, pressing Ctrl+Tab should advance the focus to the next tab in the tab-list of the dialog box. For example, "System Settings > Appearance" shows two tabs: 1. LOOK 2. BEHAVIOR pressing Ctrl+Tab should move the focus between these two tabs. Yet this keyboard shortcut is not working in 12.04 LTS. Looking at System Settings, Ctrl+Tab is not working in any of the following dialog boxes: --Appearance --Language Support --Keyboard --Sound --Privacy --Time & Date --Universal Access To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/944094/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
