Hoary - gedit no longer open files in tabs by default

[Ari Torhamo]

On ti, 2005-02-22 at 19:36 -0500, WW wrote:
>I prefer the new behavior.  In warty (which I am still running), if
>gedit is running in one
>workspace and you run gedit in another workspace, the running instance
>is moved
>from the old workspace to the new workspace.  *That* is really
>annoying. I've had to
>use some extra command line arguments and aliases to get gedit to
>behave nicely
>with workspaces.  I think the new convention is: files opened from
>within an instance of gedit
>get put in a new tab in that instance.  Anything else starts a new
>instance.  Not everyone likes
>this behavior, but it seems clear and consistent to me.


Perhaps it would be ideal to have a setting for this in preferences and
let the user decide wether to use tabs or multiple windows. I like tabs
because they help me to organize my desktop. The problem with workspaces
sounds annoying, but I think it would be desireble to have it resolved
independently - not by limiting a usefull feature (if possible).

Tab concept is great, but I wish there were better keyboard shortcuts to
move between open tabs than Ctrl + Page Up and Ctrl + Page Down. The
problem with these is that when you touch type, you have to move your
right hand off from it's normal place on the keyboard to change between
tabs (it's the same with Firefox though). But I guess the current
keyboard layout also sets many limits for shortcuts.

Regards,

Ari