If we're creating guidelines, I'd like to suggest ctrl+page-up and
ctrl+page-down for switching tabs. AFAIK, the only tabbed application that
doesn't currently follow that (with the obvious exception of Gnome Terminal)
is Anjuta.

-Natan

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Allan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've been working on trying to develop some guidelines on tabs for a
> little while now. (So far, I've been concentrating on summarising
> previous discussions and current implementations.) Haven't had much time
> recently, but I do consider the work to be ongoing.
>
> There's a wiki page on live.gnome.org [1]. It's a little unwieldy at the
> moment, I'm afraid. My next job is to summarise what's there into
> something short and meaningful (I'm hoping to do that some time this
> week, actually).
>
> Allan
>
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/TabImplementation
>
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 03:09 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > In Ubuntu, we recently had a bug filed about Gedit not using ctrl+t to
> > open a new tab[1].  After consulting the HIG, we see that this isn't one
> > of the standard keyboard shortcuts.  Should it be?  Tabs are becoming
> > increasingly common in applications (even Nautilus has them now), so
> > maybe this is something that should be standardized in the next HIG
> > revision.  Does standardizing ctrl+t for "new tab" sound like a good
> > idea to anyone else?
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/301942
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