[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8148: The option names in "Modifier Keys" dialog are incorrect

#8148: The option names in "Modifier Keys" dialog are incorrect
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   Reporter:  rq                  |      Owner:  jscipione
       Type:  enhancement         |     Status:  assigned
   Priority:  normal              |  Milestone:  R1
  Component:  Preferences/Keymap  |    Version:  R1/Development
 Resolution:                      |   Keywords:
 Blocked By:                      |   Blocking:
Has a Patch:  0                   |   Platform:  All
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Comment (by jscipione):

 The names in the Modifier keys dialog are correct. They correspond to the
 role of the key, Control => B_CONTROL_KEY, Option => B_OPTION_KEY, Command
 => B_COMMAND_KEY which corresponds to the labels on the on-screen
 keyboard. The Modifier keys window allows you to reassign which keys on
 your keyboard correspond to which key role on the left and right side
 simultaneously.

 "The right-hand side Option and Command keys are reversed for users of
 AltGr." The question is why? This makes no sense to me. If simply should
 not be, left command should be the same as right command, left option
 should be the same as right option, switching them is quite confusing.

 Several of the keymaps are doing this now, and my design for the Modifier
 keys windows did not take that into account because I didn't know about
 it. Now I am trying to figure out if I should modify the Modifier keys
 window to take this anomaly into account or not.

 Either way, the Modifier keys dialog box works as intended.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8148#comment:3>
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