compare: on windows w/o explorer running [to quit taskbar, start>shutdown, ctrl-shift-alt-click+cancel] win-tab does nothing on windows w/ taskbar collapsed win-tab does not uncollapse the taskbar on windows w/ taskbar uncollapsed, win-tab focusses the next item in the taskbar. I have the sidebar closed on BeOS and Win98 because my systems are slow (esp opening things or sizing things). On BeOS I can never remember if it's alt or ctrl to switch tab s (beos keybindings don't match the os prefs or anything, so there's *no* muscle memory). On my laptop i'm used to alt-pageup/pagedown switching tasks for the terminal server (which would be running if raistlin were in w2k instead of beos), so if i accidentally trigger alt-page* i get this slow loading sidebar which i never want. If I want to switch sidebar tabs then i'd want to have the sidebar open first (press f9) so i know which tab i want next (perhaps i need to alt-pagedown instead of alt-pageup, there's no sane reason for me to blindly guess).

Yes it should, that's helps people discover what Alt+PageUp/Pagedown does. You have to use the correct keystrokes in general. If you mix up Control and Alt or forget what shortcuts are which you'll have lots of problems.

*** Bug 252502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 252524 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I disagree strongly with Aaron Leventhal's remark: "Yes it should, that's helps people discover what Alt+PageUp/Pagedown does." Someone who has closed the Sidebar by dragging the border all the way to the left is almost by definition someone who does not want to see it. Having it pop open if you accidentally punch alt+pageup doesn't help, because you don't want to know what alt+pageup/pagedown does, because you don't use the sidebar. (On my keyboard -- a Kinesis contoured model -- it's extremely easy to hit alt+pageup by mistake: the two keys are right next to each other. It took me a few years of being annoyed by this behavior to figure out what I was doing that was causing it to pop open.) Note that the behavior I was complaining about specifically in this bug: 252502, is that when you do this (drag sidebar border all the way left, then hit alt+pageup) what happens is that the sidebar pops out very slightly, only 2 or 3 character's worth: this is useless behavior by any standard. Now, if you've closed the sidebar with F9, it pops out to whatever width it was before you closed it, but to discover this you need to know about F9 (I didn't until today... how would I know about it?), and if you *do* know about F9, then you don't need alt+pageup to do this: it's redundant functionality. I urge you to reconsider this issue: it's a weird annoyance that's taken me a few years to figure out.

(In reply to comment #4) > to know about F9 (I didn't until today... how would I know about it?), you could know about it by view|show/hide|sidebar F9