[haiku-development] Re: Keymaps and Command key

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Jorge Mare <kokitomare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> What's wrong with making control the default and if you want alt, you
>> can switch to that? Because most future Haiku users will be used to
>> control as default, learned how to touch type with it and will
>> complain about it or told to look up a FAQ  and that's something to be
>> minimized.
>
> This change that you propose would institutionalize an inconsistency
> of having to use different copy and paste short-keys in Terminal.
> Since being consistent is one of Haiku's self-professed traits, we
> should practice what we preach and not do things like this to be the
> same as other OSes.

I understand this logic but Michael Lotz said (see above) this wasn't
the case; the control-c copies in both the GUI and terminal and alt-c
is now "break.'
Haiku would still be internally consistent as well as consistent with
the other OS's. Two for the price of one.

> I understand what you mean, but please, look at it from a bit of a
> wider perspective.
>
> There are many other changes that we could make to the Haiku GUI or
> the way Haiku behaves so that users from Windows and/or other OSes
> feel more at home when they try it. I can think of a few, like
> replacing the window tabs with title bars, having the Disks icon on
> the desktop by default and renamed to My Computer, and
> maximizing/restoring windows by double clicking the title bar; I am
> sure we could come up with (many) more.
>
> The question we need to ask ourselves is this: are we going to make
> accommodating users of other platforms a primary driving force for the
> design of Haiku? I don't think that has ever been the case, and I hope
> it does not become in the future.
>
> Jorge

Be different where it makes sense and not for the sake of being
different, otherwise there's a bigger retraining and support cost. I
think it is important that Haiku has a very low TCO in addition to
simply being 'free.'

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