[haiku-development] Re: Key roles vs. key label in menus

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:56:27 +0200

On 05/04/2012 20:46, John Scipione wrote:
> For Shift Upwards White Arrow ⇧ seems to be the obvious choice. It
> even appears on some keyboards.
> 
> For Option, as was stated previously, there is no obvious choice. But,
> as was stated before my original suggestion, Option Key ⌥ is logical
> and so I still say we go with that. If you have doubts, the actual
> Unicode name for that symbol is OPTION KEY. So, it seems like a good
> "option" to me. :)

Note there is also an ALTERNATIVE KEY SYMBOL U+2387 ⎇

Oh there is a HELM SYMBOL U+2388 ⎈ with alternative name as "control".
Not very visual though.

François.

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