[haiku-development] Re: Separate shortcut spaces
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:56:25 +0100 CET
Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Humdinger schrieb:
> > Stephan Aßmus wrote:
> >> WonderBrush actually uses each modifier key on the left side of
> > > the
> >> keyboard for some modification of the behavior of the path editor
> > > tool.
> > Maybe the Haiku Interface Guidelines
> > (http://factory.haiku-os.org/documentation/HIG/) should reserve at
> > least
> > one key as system modifier then. I'm sure we'll need it if we want
> > to
> > advance the user interface in the future, see the Stack&Tile
> > feature and
> > Move&Resize as discussed here.
> Hm. That suggestion has some appeal. :-)
>
> Problem remains... can we agree on the best modifier to use for such
> stuff? I tend to think the "Windows key" is the least pre-occupied.
> And
> it has some ring to it to reserve the "Windows key" for window
> operations... ;-)
Sure, but it also has a problem: it's not available everywhere. I know
at least IBM keyboards don't have the windows key, but if you got an
Apple, there is no such key either.
I'm afraid there is no perfect solution. Although, since we lived
pretty well without such modifiers, maybe using the windows key isn't
too bad - if you don't have it, you can still use the system without
any problems, just a tad less convenient sometimes ;-)
Bye,
Axel.
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