Felix Miata wrote:
Maybe it would be better for Konsole to be more like other apps in their emulation of the source of the tab paradigm, at least via a simple option. Tabs' origin is in a binder, pages in a "book", enabling one to quickly select a particular point in a (vertical) stack or layer of sheets or pages. Thus, at least arguably, the more sensible emulation is up/down, not right/left.
Ctrl-Up/Ctrl-Down works in Mozilla products, my first exposure to tabs in any Linux environment, though not my first in a PC environment. (Alt-# in Quattro Pro for DOS was the first, just short of 3 decades ago.) Thus, because I spend more time in web browsers than all other tabbed apps combined, and with many many many tabs, than Konsole, keyboard tab switching in Konsole requires extra mental effort.
I am sure you can modify this behavior to suit your needs the best. This is completely configurable.
regards