[haiku-development] Re: app_server flag fixes
- From: Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 04:10:53 -0400
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Or we use keymap-independent key names, as I've proposed in the past:
> You have OPT ("OPTION", default: WIN), COM ("COMMAND", default: ALT),
> CTL ("CONTROL", default: CTRL). If we use these consistently troughout
> the system, from menu shortcut labels to Keymap preferences to
> documentation, the user can remap his keyboard to his heart's content
> and everything always remains correct.
>
>
yeah but that just makes things more abstract and not so intuitive. It
would be a different story if Haiku offered total keyboard shortcut control
but all this trouble for just 3 keys?
Better to just say "alt is what we use, it is consistent and more
ergodynamic and you'll get used to it."
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