Re: Tab bar

[Juri Linkov]

>> I can't understand this. Why are they fighting a (rather) well
>> established standard on w32 instead of using it to their favor to get
>> new users?
>
> Not sure you can take for granted that developers - and users - of other
> desktop guis (or even w32) are as familiar with w32 as you might be. :-)
> I myself have relatively seldom used w32 (amiga->gnu/linux in 1990s...),
> and of w32 users I know, most aren't at a skill level where they'd use
> many keyboard shortcuts to navigate...  So, I had no idea C-TAB
> did that on windows, and on gnu/linux I'm used to C-PgUp/Dn - turns out
> I've been missing out, Tk notebooks use C-TAB, I just didn't discover
> that until now.

Tabs were first introduced by CUA for notebook pages, and CUA was most
widely used on w32 applications.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/