On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:38:56 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi Luis; > > On 17 June 2013 17:09, Luis Menina <liberfo...@freeside.fr> wrote: > >> I also whish one could cycle through the tabs of a tabbed application >> using just Alt+Tab too, gnome shell handling the tabs, to find the tab >> of the same application I was using 5s ago. > > you really, *really* don't want this. > > I currently have two Firefox windows open, the first with 41 tabs > (after I did a couple rounds of garbage collection, last night I was > at around 70), the other with ~50 tabs. then I have four or five > terminal instances, and within each I have between 3 and 7 tabs. tabs > are cheaper than windows, so people *do* use a ton of those. the > selector would become incredibly tiny, and hard to navigate — > *especially* on low-resolution displays like a netbook.
Absolutely correct. What can be improved is the key-combination for switching between the tabs. For a weird, unknown reason, we don't rely on Ctrl+Tab for switching between tabs in most applications. That will fit much more in the expectations of the users, than Ctrl+PGUP/PGDN or even worse Ctrl+Shift+PGUP/PGDN. Furthermore it will follow the convention of Alt+Tab and is also more "keyboard-friendly". Hitting Ctrl+Tab is easier than searching Ctrl+PGUP/PGDN, especially since a lot of manufacturers started to move around PGUP/PGDN (most ot them seem to search a ideal place for it...). e.g. Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab could be used aside of Ctrl+PGUP/PGDN, which won't hurt people how are already aware of the current behaviour of GNOME. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
