[haiku-development] Re: Keymaps and Command key
- From: "scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:46:37 -0700
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> I doubt that there is any particular reason other than trying to change
>>> the defaults (ie. switch control/alt for the user). I would just fix all
>>> those keymaps; if you don't want to do this, opening a bug report would be a
>>> solution for now :-)
>>
>> Ok, i'm ready to commit. The faulty keymaps had the left side in "Alt mode"
>> and the right side in "Ctrl mode". I fixed them to be in "Alt mode" by
>> default and it now behaves like in R5 (max4.1).
>>
>> However, i'm now wondering if the best default wouldn't be the Ctrl mode.
>> What do you think? How many are still using Alt-C Alt-V for copy paste? :-)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>
> Haiku should be about sane defaults. Control C for copy, etc is
> default for Windows as well as gnome and kde on linux, even though it
> does something else in terminal. We'll probably get a number of people
> wondering why copying doesn't 'work.'
> On the other hand, people will be asking about a great many things
> since haiku doesn't try to be a windows clone.
>
>
Firefox also uses Ctrl-C / Ctrl-Ins for copy, and Ctrl-V / Shift-Ins,
but it doesn't take much use of the terminal and other Haiku apps to
learn that it's alt everywhere else.
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