Hoary - gedit no longer open files in tabs by default

[Ari Torhamo]

On ke, 2005-02-23 at 07:17 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
>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


I seem to have repeated someone elses thought as if I was the first one
to bring it up. I thought I was the first one to reply to the original
message, but I had just accidentally collapsed the thread in Evolution
and didn't see the other messages - sorry :-/

Ari