Scrolling over tabs should switch tabs

[On-The-Fly]

If you put your mouse over any tab and scroll the tabs should switch like in most other linux applications like chromium-browser, sublime-text or gnome-terminal.

Scrolling up would mean last tab, scrolling down next tab.

[Akshay Shekher (voldyman)]

this is a more of a granite DynamicNotebook issue than a pantheon terminal issue.

[apart (iapart)]

Hi, I finally had a moment to find why the keys weren't correctly captured in DynamicNotebook.
I moved the keyboard event registration piece in to the set_parent event handler and registered the events to the toplevel window. This way the tab switching hotkeys (ctr+tab, shift+tab, etc.) are captured and handled correctly.
I attach a diff file for this.

[David Gomes (davidgomes)]

Apart, I don't really get the patch. First of all, it's based on an old Dynamic Notebook version and then I don't get what you are trying to do. This has nothing to do with using the mouse wheel over tabs does it?

Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab are NOT supposed to work on the Terminal by the way.

[apart (iapart)]

Hi,

I don't know about the dynamic notebook being up-to-date - I checked
out the current version from bzr and based on that. I got confused with
the tickets for key and mouse bindings - so I posted the patch to two
different tickets.

The patch is for ctrl+tab and ctr+shift+tab - if these are NOT supposed
to work in terminal then what is? Ctrl+Pg{Up,Dn} ? Ctrl+tab are the ones
mentioned in the comment in DynamicNotebook. They weren't working,
because the handler was attached to a wrong object - and that's what
my patch does - it grabs the main window (in on_parent_set event)
and attaches the ctrl+tab handler in that window. I think that's the only
way to handle this event (same holds for ctrl+PgUp).

a.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Removing from milestone since this is a Granite issue and not really a Terminal issue

[Stego (stegomon)]

i absolutely NEED the <CTRL>+<PgUp>/<PgDown> tab navigation between tabs!
please implement this ASAP!
thanks!