[haiku-development] Re: Key roles vs. key label in menus
- From: Rimas Kudelis <rq@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:33:32 +0300
2012.04.07 21:22, John Scipione rašė:
#2 While Strg would work for German, it is difficult to find universal
translations for abbreviations of Option and Command for all languages.
That's because such keys are nonexistant on typical keyboards, and where
they do exist, they are marked as⌥ and ⌘ respectively. By the way, I saw
a macbook at a shop a few days ago, on which the ⌥ key didn't even
mention "Option" anymore. It had the symbol and small letters "Alt" instead.
In my opinion, showing nonexistant key labels is just as bad as showing
symbols ◇ , ○ and ◻ – the user will not know which symbol or keycap
represents the actual key either way. What Haiku does at the moment
(showing Alt or Ctrl, depending on my settings) is the correct way to
behave. Although perhaps the PC/Mac keycaps mode could be configurable.
Rimas
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