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4. May 2009, 07:06:56

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[Ctrl]+[Tab] also when only 1 tab is left

hi there

Just a quick enhancement suggestion: allow ctrl+tab also when only one tab is active.
Reason: when you have one last tab open and it is minimized you would expect you can ctrl-tab to it (the same way you can alt-tab to a minimized window). Currently this is not the case; you have to use the mouse to bring the tab to foreground which is annoying if you have your hands at the keyboard.
Also possibility to [ctrl/alt]-[tab] with only one page/window is expected behaviour, so to say it in programming jargon: that it does not work fires an interrupt that forces me to throw away and rebuild my pipeline (aka next-action-to-do list)

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4. May 2009, 23:22:05

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This sounds like more of a bug than a feature request.

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5. May 2009, 05:31:44

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I wasn't sure either if I should file it as bug or request

It seemed to me that behaviour is intentional, thoug (by that not fulfilling my criteria to be a bug), so I decided it should go to the requests.

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5. May 2009, 07:58:39

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It sounds more like a bug to me. You might want to consider filing a bug report.

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5. May 2009, 13:09:37

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reported: DSK-252359

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5. May 2009, 18:23:13

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Alternative approach - try your menu key, or Ctrl-M if you don't have a menu key. The context menu on the workspace (or also the Window menu, Alt-W if enabled) lists open tabs in the current window.

Hmm ... seems they changed Ctrl-M at some time, and for some reason the Menu key is giving me the panel selector bar menu (even with the panels hidden), guess it's only Alt-W then. Enable the Widow menu if it isn't, and use it.

6. May 2009, 06:09:24

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that's also a custom shortcut of yours. and also all of these workarounds require extra klicking/corsor keys work. And that only because the code for enabling the window switcher is off-by-one. I imagine that something like

onWindowCycle(){
    if(windows.count() > 1) { // a "> 0" would solve the problem
        start_cycling();
    }
}

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6. May 2009, 08:36:33

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Alt-w isn't custom ... but it is English. Standard menu shortcut, but it does assume you're using the English language for your menus. Also a chance they changed it themselves between 9.64 and 10. But ... all the menus in the menu bar currrently use the first letter as a shortcut, except for Feeds (shortcut is Alt-S, I think I would have used Alt-D) and Widgets (shortcut is Alt-G).

Guess they must have edited the language file in 10 to force those two shortcuts, the way Opera's automatic assignment usually works one would have expected Alt-W for Widgets, Alt-D for Feeds, and thus Alt-I for Window.

6. May 2009, 15:48:23

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argh, the menu. most've missed that part. Still it's everything but intuitive atm.

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12. July 2009, 23:37:04

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Heh, I think I reported this as a bug several years ago. Obviously they ignored it and still didn't fix it. :/

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13. July 2009, 03:19:23

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Not a bug at all, but by design, which would explain why they haven't fixed it.
Since the function of Ctrl Tab is "Cycle to Next Page" why shoud it restore a minimised tab?

Try changing the action of the shortcut:

Tab Ctrl = Cycle to next page | Restore page

Edit: No, that doesn't work, because the panels have focus when the last tab is minimised.

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13. July 2009, 07:57:55

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Originally posted by Pesala:

Since the function of Ctrl Tab is "Cycle to Next Page" why shoud it restore a minimised tab?

simply as the last (minimized) tab is the next - as well as the previous and current - one.
Also as allready mentioned many window manager do it that way (windows, gnome, xfce, ...) so it's expected behaviour.

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