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

[John Gabriele]

On 7/11/07, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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

Ah, that's it. I see that it's from November of last year. Maybe
they're just waiting for a patch from someone. Odd that the bug is
still labeled "UNCONFIRMED".

> 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,

Yes.

> 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).

No, I meant what Enrico pointed out. I think switching to the far left
or right *visible* tab might give the user the impression that they
went all the way to the end, even though there might be more tabs
hidden past it. :)

Thanks,
---John