On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:00:58PM -0300, Christian Reis wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:30:46PM -0400, Matt Wilson wrote:
> > Try Ctrl+Tab.

> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:03:43PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> > > Normaly you can change the focus of the controls with "tab". But in a
> > > GtkText control it does not work. Shift-Tab works, but it only gets
> > > backwards. Is there a magic shortcut?
> 
> Is there a reason for this rather inconsistent UI for control focus
> shifting?

It was discussed quite a bit last year on some of the GNOME mailing
lists and is basically a compromise in an impossible situation. Most
people are used to using <Tab> to move between controls, since that is
used on a lot of platforms' desktops. However, we clearly can't use that
in text wigets since then it would be impossible to enter a tab
character (which is often needed). So for text widgets /only/ there is
an inconsistent keyboard shortcut. 

The alternative was making everything use <Ctrl>-<Tab> to shift focus
and that was considered to break too many peoples' expectations.

(Note: this is a precis of the discussion, it does not necessarily match
my opinion.)

Malcolm
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