[haiku-development] Re: AltGr Key, key_map, and the US-International Keyboard

  • From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 13:43:40 -0400

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Adrien Destugues
<pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:30:42 +0200, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> a
> écrit:
>
>> AltGr seems determined not to fit into that model. So I am
>> perplexed as to how to accomplish all this currently.
>
> Yes, we all know it's a bad thing and it shouldn't exist, but our French,
> Spanish, Lithuanian and German keyboard are so made. People not happy with
> that just go for a different layout like US-International.
> I don't think Haiku is there to change how this works :)

Let's say that there was an option for an AltGr key separate from any
other key that exists now and you were to map AltGr to where right Alt
is now. You'd lose right Command, right? And option basically does
what AltGr does now, so, you'd effectively have option twice in a row
and no right command. That doesn't seem right. So you assign right
option to be right command. And then you are back to where we are now.

My point is AltGr already exists, you've got 2 of em! They are just
called "option" and are mapped to the Windows key, at least on
US-International. What's so wrong with that?

John Scipione

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