[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8148: The option names in "Modifier Keys" dialog are incorrect
- From: "rq" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:45:25 -0000
#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 rq):
Replying to [comment:3 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.
This makes sense, but only for the "assigned function" side. The other
side (hardware keys) is NOT labeled BeOS way, and I would expect it that
when I assign say Option function to the Option key, it's Alt keys that
are affected, not the Win-keys, which act as Function by default for some
reasons I can never agree with, but that's a subject for another issue. I
would also prefer the physical keys to be called the way they are usually
labelled on the keyboard (that is Alt instead of Option, and perhaps Win
instead of Command).
> "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.
I personally like that, although others may disagree.
> 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.
Please try to understand my position too. If it took me a few minutes of
trial and error to figure out what changes what. I doubt that was
intended. MI believe my report is still valid. I'm not asking you to
change the key names used in Haiku, but ONLY those that correspond to a
physical keyboard.
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