Hello,
When browsing GNOME Web with multiple tabs open, after closing a tab with Ctrl-W, the tab from the left becomes active. I would expect that the next tab (form the right) would get displayed, based not only on other browsers’ behavior, but also on GNOME Web’s behavior when closing a tab from its close button, which reveals the tab from the right.
After a few other tests I found the actual behavior of Ctrl-W: the tab from the left becomes active if the tab previously active was on the left from the current tab, and the tab from the right becomes active if some tab on the right of the current tab was previously active.
While there is a logic in this behavior, I am not sure if is the most effective one from a UX perspective.
Example of navigation:
- user browses the GNOME Discourse for new topics.
- user opens the topics of interest in new tabs, with Ctrl-Tab, without leaving the current window (say 10 topics)
- user proceeds to reading the opened topics/tabs, from left to right
- after reading a topic, user closes the tab with Ctrl-W
Expected outcome: the next (unread) topic/tab gets displayed.
Actual outcome: the tab from the left (e.g. GNOME Discourse main page) gets displayed. User has to jump to the next tab by an additional action (Ctrl-Tab or pointer click).
The behavior in Files is similar.
I wonder if this is an issue, or does it work as designed.