[haiku-development] Re: Keymaps
- From: Siarzhuk Zharski <zharik@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 23:02:38 +0200
Am 10.05.2012 22:23, schrieb pulkomandy:
System-wide shortcuts are (or should be) configurable, while shortcuts
in applications aren't. Localization of shortcuts also makes this
pretty messy, for example undo is Alt+Z on Azerty and on Qwerty
keyboards, so the key to press moves around, while on a Cyrillic
Keymap I expect it to be on the key labelled Z on Qwerty (am I right ?).
With cyrillic keymap no letter-based shortcuts are working at all. :-D
BTW, Keymap Switcher has special "remapping" feature to change the
character on the fly to corresponding latin one in case Cmd-modifier is
active.
This means application shortcuts should be keymap dependant in a
non-straightforward way.
This means that Haiku's implementation of shortcuts is far from perfection.
The more system shortcuts you add, the more likely one of them will
clash with some application shortcut.
I think that user can decide better which shortcut is more suitable for
him personally. And we will be not responsible for his decision in case
of shortcuts conflict. ;-)
Even worse if you use the command key. This leaves very few shortcuts
matching for the keymap switching function : * Does not use command +
something (likely used by some app) * Does not use letters (will move
around when swapping keymaps) * Is simple enough, as it will get used
often ... I think caps lock is actually a very good choice for this ?
BTW, using CapsLock/ScrollLock for KeymapSwitcher has clashed with
default handling of this buttons in the input_server. They are available
in the list but behaviour is not predictable. Yes, the CapsLock is very
popular as keymaps switcher, but we have to hack input_server for this
and let the CAPITALIZE FANS to switch this off.
Since the keymap switcher is not used by everyone, a lot of devs will
be tempted to use the shortcut for their own app, and it will then
conflict. Of course, you can make a bug report to these guys :)
IMO, it is difficult to find the shortcut that satisfy everyone. And do
not forget, that we still speaking about simple cycle switching. What
about configurations with N keymaps and N+1 required shortcuts to select
every one directly without cycle?
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Kind Regards,
S.Zharski
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