[haiku-development] Re: Keymaps and Command key

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:04:48 +0200 CEST

> > Ok, i'm ready to commit. The faulty keymaps had the left side in
> > "Alt mode"
> > and the right side in "Ctrl mode". I fixed them to be in "Alt mode"
> > by
> > default and it now behaves like in R5 (max4.1).
> >
> > However, i'm now wondering if the best default wouldn't be the Ctrl
> > mode.
> > What do you think? How many are still using Alt-C Alt-V for copy
> > paste? :-)
>
> Alt-C/V makes more sense for a simple reason: that way you can use
> these shortcuts also in the terminal.
> On windows and gnome, for example, the Terminals use different
> shortcuts to copy and paste (CTRL-SHIFT-C/V on gnome), since CTRL is
> reserved for control commands.
>

Exactly, and don't tell me Terminal is not an essential lifesaving app!

François.

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