#7965: Keymap Modifiers Menu with Mac Modifiers Option ----------------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: jscipione | Owner: axeld Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: Preferences/Keymap | Version: R1/Development Resolution: | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: Has a Patch: 1 | Platform: All ----------------------------------+---------------------------- Comment (by jscipione): Replying to [comment:2 axeld]: > IIRC Mac keyboards are different from normal keyboards, and therefore usually have their own keymap to deal with them. And this keymap should already take care of having the command/option/alt key where they belong on the Mac. I think this change would make changing the keys unnecessarily complicated. Mac keyboards are a bit different from PC keyboards, yes, but they are mostly the same. The only major differences are the modifier keys the numeric keypad is laid out a bit differently. In an ideal world I agree with you that a Mac keyboard would be automatically detected and have the appropriate keymap assigned to it. However, the drop-down added in this ticket is to aid the user when this ideal case does not occur. For example there is no (Mac) keymap file currently for my locale (US). And if the keymap does get automatically get detected and applied for the user then the drop down will have "Mac modifiers" selected. So in addition the user is given feedback. > BTW, there is really no need to put a screenshot for everything in here. In this particular case, I find all screenshots pretty much superfluous. Sorry, I put screenshots in only to try to aid understanding. I was worried that people wouldn't "see" the feature from the description alone. I still think it is hard to "see" the feature even with the screenshots. You have to apply the patch and try it out to really see how it works. But, I agree that the screenshots are a bit gregarious especially because they are wider than the normal page size. I will tone down the screenshots in the future. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7965#comment:4> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.