Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab keyboard shortcuts should allow navigating between tabs

[johndowns]

Storage Explorer Version: 1.6.0
Platform/OS Version: Windows (also on macOS)
Architecture: ia32 (also on macOS)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open multiple tabs - e.g. blob container, queue, table.
2. Press Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab in an attempt to move between tabs quickly.

Expected Experience:

Ctrl+Tab should move to the next tab in the tab view. Ctrl+Shift+Tab should move to the previous tab in the tab view.

Actual Experience:

Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab does nothing.

[jinglouMSFT]

Please try Tab and Shift Tab for now. We can look into adding ctrl+tab and ctrl+shft+tab in the future.

[johndowns]

Thanks. Tab and Shift+Tab just move between all of the controls on the window though, so this isn't really a substitute.

I'll look forward to this hopefully in a future update.

[MRayermannMSFT]

Hi @johndowns , we actually already have shortcuts for doing this! See the view menu for details (look for the next/prev editor menu items).

[johndowns]

Hi @MRayermannMSFT, thanks for your reply! Yes I'm aware the shortcuts exist - but my point was that the standard way of switching tabs, on both Windows and macOS, is to use the Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab keyboard shortcuts. All the major browsers (Chrome, Safari, Edge, IE) use these shortcuts, as does the macOS Finder. It helps a lot when applications adopt these conventions as many of us have built up muscle memory!

[mms-]

I suppose standard ctrl-tab can't be used because this app is written using Electron? I mean lets face it the UI does feel crappy, menu bar dosn't fit in, it dosn't feel like a real app. Use your own UI frameworks Microsoft.

[MRayermannMSFT]

Ok, merged into master for 1.10.0! Thank you for bringing this up @johndowns , I'm a big believer in trying to follow existing standards where possible, so more than happy to fix this.

Also, @mms- , we've heard complaints in the past about our UI. Unfortunately most of the complaints are vague/don't give specific suggestions. So if you have the time, it'd be great if you could open a new issue regarding what you don't like (and maybe even what you do like! 😄 ) about our UI. Personally, I'm not a fan of how we still use a gradient in the toolbar, but I also really like our move to colored SVG icons in the tree. So if you have any examples like that, we'd love to hear them. Thanks!