[haiku-development] Re: Shortcuts that require shifting don't work
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:01:44 +0200
On 2009-08-27 at 12:11:35 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:32 PM, François Revol<revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > ALT-1,2,3... never worked in BeOS for azerty.
> > > Nor does it work in Haiku yet IIRC.
> > That is definitely annoying and is the same problem obviously, since
> > numbers need to be shifted on azerty.
>
> This has come up a number of times already. The difficulty for the OS
> is that is does not know if your shortcut prefers the symbol or the
> position of the key. While we could add some heuristics to deal with
> those, they won't be perfect either, and may add a bit of randomness,
> too (although it could make sure that what is shown next to the menu is
> always correct, there are shortcuts without a menu, too).
>
> In the end, I think we need to extend the shortcut mechanism a way that
> lets you specify whether the symbol or the position should be taken
> into account (raw key vs. mapped key).
Plus make all that comfortably user-configurable, system-wide and per
application. A must-have, but IMHO post-R1. Since we don't seem to manage
to define a fixed feature set for R1, one never knows, though.
CU, Ingo
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