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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Usability mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability >
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