BUG during tab-browsing with the keyboard in the sidebar when a new tab is in the sidebar

[ralf3u]

Conditions

• except File Browser all other plugins are deactivated
• sidebar is on the left side
• in the sidebar are three tabs (from left to the right): Symbols, Documents and Files
• in the editor are two documents

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. click in the editor on the second tab-title, so the second tab is in focus
2. click in the sidebar on the tab-title Documents
3. close Geany
4. open Geany (result: the second tab of the editor should be in focus while in the sidebar the tab Documents is active)
5. click on the tab-title Files
6. tab-browse with the keyboard three times to the left side

Result the first tab of the editor is in focus

Expectation the tab Files of the sidebar should be in focus

System Lubuntu 23.10 Geany 1.38

Remark This does not only happen with the plugin File Browser but also with the plugin Preview, because in both plugins a new tab is created in the sidebar, in the plugin File Browser it is the Files-tab while in the plugin Preview it is the Preview-tab. This issue is based on the knowledge of https://github.com/xiota/geany-preview/issues/11.

System Lubuntu 23.10 Geany 1.38

[elextr]

6. tab-browse with the keyboard three times to the left side

Is "tab-browse" a key on your keyboard? If not what key(s) are you pressing, ctrl+pg up/down?

If so works here (Geany 2.0, GTK 3.24.20, GLib 2.64.6).

[ralf3u]

[...] are you pressing [...] ctrl+pg up/down?

yes

[ralf3u]

I can imagine that Geany 2.0 will be part of Lubuntu 24.04, that will be published next month, so I can test the issue there.

[elextr]

BTW well done with the detailed report (except one omission ;-), I don't remember any changes in that area for 2.0, but maybe there were.

[ralf3u]

I can't reproduce the issue in Geany 2.0 in Lubuntu 23.10.