Bug 147219 - Keyboard short cut to traverse over open modules
Summary: Keyboard short cut to traverse over open modules
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Shortcuts-Accelerators
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Reported: 2022-02-05 17:28 UTC by dlingard2002
Modified: 2023-03-16 09:01 UTC (History)
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Description dlingard2002 2022-02-05 17:28:52 UTC
Description:
In ancient Lotus software it was possible to switch between open documents using CTRL+Tab.
In Calc and Write, both keyboard proentated programmes this would be a real enhancement instead of (or as well as) using the mouse to look under "Window"

Sorry this is entered as a bug report I couldn't find a request merhod.

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Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2023-03-01 10:06:57 UTC
Ctrl+Tab usually traverses over tabs, like in any browser. Abusing this shortcut for windows even from one application makes not much sense to me. But since we have a list of open modules under the Windows entry I assume it's not too difficult to add a UNO command that can be customized individually. Opinions?
Comment 2 dlingard2002 2023-03-01 10:48:05 UTC
Yes, that's how CTRL+Tab works in a browser but in writer and calc open documents are not tabbed - or have I missed something?

I'm no expert and there are so many options I may well have missed the chance to have separate open documents as tabs. If so please forgive my igorance and point me towards the answer.

Thanks for your help.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2023-03-01 13:54:15 UTC
(In reply to dlingard2002 from comment #2)
> Writer and Calc open documents are not tabbed

Exactly, they are stand-alone windows. And your OS shortcut to switch between open windows is likely alt+tab. Overwriting system functions is dirty, but admittedly beneficial in this case. So my proposal was to implement the feature but not hard-code a short cut.
Comment 4 Cor Nouws 2023-03-15 19:13:38 UTC
On Gnome, Alt+` (key left of 1/!) does just that; switching between windows of the same application.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2023-03-16 09:01:33 UTC
We discussed the topic in the design meeting.

Gnome shows that such an option is very much welcome - and should be implemented on the OS. If LibreOffice is going to implement such a function we could imagine two options: first via UNO command that iterates through the open windows and second to label the entries unter Windows with numbers so switching per Alt+W+<number> is possible. Given that the OS might have a function the latter is the preferred solution.