592179 - Enable switch to group in awesome bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

In the way of disclosure, it makes a lot of sense to indicate if a tab matched
in the awesome bar comes from another group.

* If the group is named, it should say "switch to tab in group [name]".
* If the group is unnamed, it should say "switch to tab in other group".

It should also be possible to switch to a group by name as Brandon mentioned.

* "switch to group", which will return you to the last tab in that group which
you were viewing

Comment 2

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

Is this a duplicate of bug 594995?

Comment 3

[Ian Gilman [:iangilman]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is this a duplicate of bug 594995?

The aspect of this bug that is not a duplicate is the ability to switch to a group by typing its name into the awesome bar. Edited title to reflect this. 

We've passed feature freeze; punting this to post-ff4.

Comment 4

[Kevin Hanes]

Moving this to Location Bar component as bug 644215 is a dupe of it

Comment 6

[donrhummy]

I've now been using FF4 with Panorama for a bit now and I'd add this as well:

1. User clicks CTRL-ALT-TAB
2. Firefox pops up a window showing the different tab groups as small icons
3. Clicking CTRL-ALT-TAB moves to the next group (highlights it in that window, or if they type and release quickly, just changes to that)

The problem with Panorama right now is a MAJOR lack of efficiency. I find I have to switch groups quite frequently and it's making Panorama a burden. With a quick keyboard shortcut to switch groups, Panorama suddenly becomes MORE efficient, not less.

Comment 7

[Kevin Hanes]

(In reply to comment #6)
> The problem with Panorama right now is a MAJOR lack of efficiency. I find I
> have to switch groups quite frequently and it's making Panorama a burden. With
> a quick keyboard shortcut to switch groups, Panorama suddenly becomes MORE
> efficient, not less.

Note that ctrl+` will move you to the next group and ctrl+shift+` will take you to previous group.

Comment 8

[donrhummy]

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > The problem with Panorama right now is a MAJOR lack of efficiency. I find I
> > have to switch groups quite frequently and it's making Panorama a burden. With
> > a quick keyboard shortcut to switch groups, Panorama suddenly becomes MORE
> > efficient, not less.
> 
> Note that ctrl+` will move you to the next group and ctrl+shift+` will take you
> to previous group.

OK, but that is completely non-intuitive. No one ever uses that key with control for anything first of all, but secondly it's missing the popup window to show you what group you're tabbing to. If I have 6 groups, doing ctrl+` is going to be annoying and very inefficient. Especially since I won't know what order they're in.

The popup showing small icons with names or something is needed.

Comment 9

[Brandon W Maister]

 probably makes sense to Mac people, they use Alt+` to toggle between windows of the same program. And Ctrl+Alt+Tab is taken by most Linux Window managers as "Switch between windows on all desktops."

Keybindings are hard.

One thing that I would like though would be if the Panorama screen would show a list of keybindings when a key (eg "?") is pressed, like gmail does if you have settings configured correctly. I had no idea about this particular shortcut until it came up in the bug.

And, if someone decides to put in the effort to add something more like a static group switcher (which I think would be nice) to Panorama I would like to point out that I think we could take more advantage of spacial memory by having it operate like:

(1) Ctrl+` switches to Panorama, and selects the next group with noticable highlighting.
(2)  Pressing Ctrl+` repeatedly moves selection to the next group (and highlights it).
(3) Releasing Ctrl makes the currently selected group the current tab group, and exits the Panorama view.

Comment 10

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

wontfix per bug 836758