[haiku-development] Re: Keymaps and Command key

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:49:12 +0200 CEST

"Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Another point: BeOS was intended to coexist with Windows, not 
> > replace
> > it. "Use BeOS for media and windows for everything else."  If you 
> > have
> > to dual boot most of the time (or use wine) then alt c here and
> > control c there would be a major inconsistency.
> But not everybody is in that situation nor cares. We have the option
> to flip it to control if you desire it anyways. If everything we do
> has to be done so as to appease everybody coming from other systems
> then we may as well give up now.

I would be all for keeping the current default; at least it feels like 
I need much less finger acrobatics to use it in comparison to Control.
I would just add a paragraph to the welcome "first start" document that 
explains the issue, and how one can change it.

Bye,
   Axel.


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