[haiku-development] Re: Keymaps and Command key
- From: "Jorge Mare" <kokitomare@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:01:37 -0700
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 was not aware of this, and it is true. But then, that being the
case, using the proposed default would make Terminal in Haiku break
standard/expected behaviour, something that would most probably annoy
users too.
> 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.'
It is not about being different for the sake of being different; it is
about being consistent, as in, practicing what we preach and in trying
to push for the areas that differentiate Haiku from other systems, not
because they are different, but because we think they are better.
So, for example, if we are going to tell people how good our fully
attributed file system is to manage your emails, and then we bundle
Thunderbird as an email client because that's what people are used to
in Linux and Windows, then there is little point in trying to promote
Haiku. The more we go down that road, the less compelling Haiku
becomes.
Besides, you are talking about retraining and support costs as if
Haiku were close to being usable on the kind of computer
environment(s) or market(s) where these things matter. Don't fool
yourself: Haiku has plenty of other issues to address before TCO even
starts to appear in the horizon.
Jorge
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