[openbeos] Re: Haiku-key

Ronald Vos wrote:

Perhaps a heathenous question, but has a use been found for those 2
keys with those very dubious symbols? I'm talking about those things
they've been stuffing between the alt and the ctrl keys since 1995.

I haven't been able to spot a keyboard without those keys in stores
for the past *decade*, so I was wondering: could we assign a function
to it, or has that already been done?

We could call it the 'Haiku-key', and ship Haiku-stickers to put on
them with the official cd-version. :)

Then it could be used either to instantly open up the Haiku menu, or
do something with tracker. Perhaps use it as the aforementioned
'jump-key'.

I know it's not as necessary to have as for that *other* OS, since
Haiku will most likely have the famous mile-high menus (easier to
click with the mouse), but it could still be handy.

Ronald Vos



For what it's worth: I use the left "Windows" key a lot while navigating within the directory tree in my largely-unmodified install of R5.0.3 (with Be's own Tracker). Suppose I open the Home folder to a window. When I double-click on the icon for the Config child folder while holding down the left Windows key, the parent folder (Home) is closed immediately after the child folder (Config) opens in its own window. This reduces clutter. It works in the other (upward) direction as well. If I hold down the left Windows key while selecting any parent folder from the "genealogy" drop-down list in the lower left corner of the window frame, the child folder window is closed immediately after the parent folder window opens.

I understand that OpenTracker has convenient settings that permit "single-window" browsing, but it's interesting that Be including this left Windows key functionality in its own version of Tracker.

In a real sense, it changes the "w" in "Windows key" from a majuscule (W) to a generic miniscule (w)!

Czeslaw

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