[Geany] tab, the triangle clicky widgets bug, and Ctrl-PgUp / Ctrl-PgDn

[Nick Treleaven]

On 07/10/2007 07:10:10 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
> When I've got a bunch of files open, with the tabs visible, and they
> take up more than the window width, the little left/right triangle
> buttons show up. They currently are supposed to allow me to switch
> from one tab to the next in the given direction of the button.
> 
> A problem I'm noticing is 3-fold:
> 
> 1. The user usually doesn't need to switch from file to file this way.
> If they've gone and reached for the mouse, they may as well just click
> on the tab itself to get the file.
> 
> 2. If the user is editing a file in a tab far to one side, and wants
> to go to a tab that's obscured on the other side, they need to either
> repeatedly click that triangle button to get there, or else resort to
> using the Open Files tab (or else use a Ctrl-Pg{Up,Dn} key to "round
> the horn" to get there).
> 
I agree. I think this should be changed in Gtk. You might be interested  
in these bugs:

"Arrows of tabs just like arrows of menus"
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377441

More general but also covering notebook arrows:
"GtkNotebook should use multiple rows"
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110540

> Also, since Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn nowadays let you wrap around to
> the tab on the other end of the row, I think it would be useful to
> have:
> 
> Shift-Ctrl-PgUp -- gets you all the way to the tab on the far left
> Shift-Ctrl-PgDn -- gets you all the way to the tab on the far right
> 
> where, if the tab on the far left was obscured, and you hit
> Shift-Ctrl-PgUp, it would also automatically slide the view of the row
> of tabs all the way to the left, so you could see the tab you just
> switched to.
> 
Hmm, maybe. Ideally Gtk+ should be changed IMO, but perhaps those  
shortcuts could be useful in the meantime. (I assume you mean visible  
tabs rather than absolute first and last; as Enrico points out Alt-1,  
Alt-0 can do this).

Regards,
Nick