How to open Navigator.navigateTo in a new browser tab?

Hi,

I've a few locations in code where I'd like to allow users to open an UI in a new page - e.g. when the user presses "CTRL" when clicking on a MenuItem. Is it possible to query the system which keys are currently pressed?

The code 

MenuItem ellipsis = bar.addItem("", FontAwesome.ELLIPSIS_V, null);
ellipsis.addItem("Search...", e -> {
    Search query =...;
    // if CTRL is not pressed, open view in the same browser tab:
    getUI().getNavigator().navigateTo(computeView(query));
    // else (CTRL is pressed), open a new tab and navigate there:
    String url = ... +  computeView(query));
   getUI().getPage().open(url, "_blank");
});

Thanks,
Marcel

I'm also interested in this. Any word?

Most browsers require client side user event, like click event to be involved for opening with "_blank" target, otherwise the browser will block it. Thus there are some limitations in this. E.g. in Vaadin8 BrowserWindowOpener has this implemented in client side.