#15997: Deskbar menu shortcut is not available on all keyboards
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Reporter: bitigchi | Owner: jscipione
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/Deskbar | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Platform: All |
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
I see many reasons to not change this:
Window key is used for stack and tile. It is the "window management" key.
It is well known that having the windows key pop the start menu on windows
is super annoying, gamers tipycally remove it altogether from their
keyboards, for example, because it is too easily reachable.
Additionally, the layout for keyboards with an Alt Gr key is currently
very confused:
- Left Window = Right Alt Gr = "Option"
- Right Window = Left Alt = "Command"
So, Alt Gr (which is used to reach several important chars such as \, {,
€, ...) would pop up the Deskbar menu, which of course isn't acceptable.
Stack and Tile is more important than reaching Deskbar menu, because there
is no alternative to using a keyboard key for it. So, the Menu key, which
may indeed be missing, is better used for reaching Deskbar, for which
there is an easy alternative using the mouse. And the more commonly
available "window" key is used for Stack and Tile.
Also, if your Model M has no menu key, it probably also has no Windows
key.
You can easily swap keys around in the keymap preferences to suit your
keyboard if it's missing keys. Just move the "menu" mapping to any other
key you prefer using.
We could also consider an extra shortcut (command + escape as on windows?)
to open the Deskbar menu.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15997#comment:1>
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