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