On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 12:23 +0100, John Keller wrote: > Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >> Tab is already closely connected to focusing things, be it Alt-Tab for > >> the WM, or Tab alone for the focus chain. I can very well see Ctrl-Tab > >> become "focus the most important thing of the current window, or > >> iterate between equally important things if you're already there". > > > > Well, Ctrl-Tab already has a different meaning in Gtk+. Not that this > > can't change or anything, but its a point against it. > > I'm not sure that I read the HIG as strictly as you seem to for this > key. "[I]n those situations where Tab alone has another function". > Pressing Tab gets me through a focus chain (whose length depends on the > elements in the window). Seems logical that Ctrl+Tab jumps to a key spot > in the chain, or cycles through it, as Holder mentions here and I did in > the other thread. The HIG just describes what Gtk+ already does for Ctrl-Tab. It is handled by default as a normal tab, but specific widgets may handle it differently when thay have focus. However, the behaviour we discuss is completely different, we want a window-wide accelerator to focus a particular widget. Its not really in any way related to the tab chain. > Plus, as I wrote in the other thread, Ctrl+Tab is already used in > Nautilus - and inconsistently, as well (inconsistent within Nautilus, > and by a strict reading of that same quoted HIG phrase, inconsistent > with the HIG too). Well, if by "used in nautilus" you mean "has the same behaviour in nautilus as in any other Gtk+ app". -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list