86032 - [RFE] Ctrl+[shift]+tab and [shift]+F6 to switch channel views

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Stephen Walker]

A keyboard shortcut is needed to switch channels when the toolbar is hidden.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sieb]

Any suggestions for what would be a good key or keys for this?

Comment 2

[timeless]

accel+arrows would be nice, accel+tab might be more traditional.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sieb]

Wouldn't the accel+tab combos be grabbed by Windows or the Window Manager?

Comment 4

[timeless]

no, on windows accel is ctrl. although for some reason i said accel+arrows i 
might have meant alt+arrows. ctrl+arrows/alt+arrows *shrug-get user feedback*, 
ctrl+tab ...

Comment 5

[Robert Ginda]

The function keys already do this.  F1 goes to the first channel, F3 to the
third, etc.

I would like to add ctr-tab and ctrl-shift-tab to switch next/previous.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

There should also be a way to access the other panes (the nick list and the
generated HTML) using the keyboard.  How about using alt+left and alt+right
(back and forward in the browser) for switching channels and accel+tab for
switching panes?

Comment 7

[Robert Ginda]

I'd like to see this (at least the ctrl-tab to change views portion) make it
into 0.8.5.  Ctrl-tab is the standard way to change tabs, so I'm not going to
make it switch to the userlist, but maybe shift-tab could do that.

Comment 8

[Aaron Leventhal]

It's ctrl+tab, rather than accel+tab, because on Mac Cmd+Tab switches apps. It
was decided that Ctrl+Tab would be the key for Mac.

We also use [shift]+F6 as an alternative keybinding, since that also works in
Windows programs  such as IE. This conveniently gives another way to do the same
thing on those platforms that steal Ctrl+Tab from us (KDE).

Finally, when there is a tabbed view (tabset), Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn are used
to change which tab is visible.

Anyway, the keys that need to be supported in this bug are:
Ctrl+[shift]+Tab
[shift]+F6

Comment 9

[Robert Ginda]

What?

This bug is about changing active tabs, which I have always known to be
Ctrl-Tab.  That is this about Ctrl-PgUp switching tabs?  And if Ctrl-PgUp is
supposed to switch tabs, then what is Ctrl-Tab/F6 supposed to do?

Comment 10

[:deanis74]

Ctrl+Tab and F6 navigate through the various frames on a page, in mail/news,
etc.  Using that to access the userlist would be standard with its use in the
other parts of the app.

Using Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn to switch tabs would be consistent with tabbed browsing.

Comment 11

[Robert Ginda]

ctrl tab and ctrl pgdn switch to the next tab
ctrl shift tab and ctrl pgup switch to the previous tab

marking fixed.

Comment 12

[:deanis74]

verified using 2001121303 on win2k