Re: Re: making Galeon like Firefox

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:43, Gavin Chester <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:18 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:15, Gavin Chester <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 01:49 +0900, Jeff Co wrote:
> > > > Is there a way to have  Ctrl-Tab cycle thru tabs (like Opera)?
> > >
> > > left click, or double-click (depending on current level of tab focus)
> > > on any tab then use arrow keys to cycle through them.  ie, up+down if
> > > tabs are vertical or left+right if horizontal.
> > >
> > > Thanks developers! :-)  That's a feature only available in new versions
> > > of galeon, as far as I can tell :-)
> >
> > I personally find this 'feature' to be annoying. Try this:
> >
> >   1. Click on a tab to activate it.
> >   2. Press the up or down arrow key to scroll the page.
> >
> > I think most people would assume that once a tab is clicked the page is
> > selected for scrolling. With Galeon, the *tab* is selected. When you
> > press an arrow key, the tabs are scrolled rather than the page.
>
> I could see that it could get annoying, but it doesn't have to be IMO.
> It all depends on which part of the window has focus.  If you have
> accidentally double-clicked the tab (either at the time or soon before)
> then the focus in on the tabs and arrows will move between tabs.  If
> this happens then just click anywhere on the web page to give focus back
> to the page and then all arrow scrolling will be normal for that page
> and any other tabbed page you select after.

The tab assumes focus even if you single-click it. The tab is supposed to 
represent the page, not be a selectable entity in itself. All other Web 
browsers work on the idea that you select a tab to select a page. AFAIK 
Galeon is the only app which behaves differently to this.

I (and I'm sure most other people) am not happy with making two clicks just to 
change tabs. Why must I click a tab, then click the page it brings up? It 
should be assumed that when I click a tab I really want the page it is 
attached to, not the tab itself.


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