[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #7965: Keymap Modifiers Menu with Mac Modifiers Option

  • From: "jscipione" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:15:00 -0000

#7965: Keymap Modifiers Menu with Mac Modifiers Option
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   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
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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.

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