Hi Jud, Thanks for bringing this up.
How about: those who care come up with a replacement combination for focus navigation in GTK+, and a patch to implement ctrl+tab to change tabs, and submit that for upstream inclusion and see if we get any substantial (other than "breaks back-compat")? Personally I think it would be a significant compatibility step forward. behdad On 01/12/2010 08:01 PM, Jud Craft wrote: > I hate to force open an old topic, but this recently came up as an > Ubuntu launchpad bug for their Paper Cuts project. [1] > > The essence of the problem is that while Ctrl-Tab is reserved by GTK for > keyboard navigation, it has also been claimed by many popular > applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux for tabbed-document navigation. > > Due to its ubiquity, the conflict is very evident in GNOME programs, > where the behavior is completely different, even on the same Linux > operating system - between Epiphany and Firefox, Empathy and Pidgin, > Anjuta and MonoDevelop as examples. > > And arguably, Firefox and Pidgin are more popular than GTK and even > other GTK applications (note that Pidgin itself is one). > > Behdad Esfahbod brought this up on desktop-devel-list, but the thread > previously lost momentum. However, aside from "continue as is", nothing > was ever resolved. > > > > 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/504405 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
