[haiku] Re: Screen preferences usability question: default button for keep settings dialog?

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:51:23 -0700

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph
Prostko<joe.prostko+haiku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it a bug or a feature that hitting anykey(s)+F12 takes you to KDL?
> I found this somewhat annoying when setting myself up to use 12
> workspaces and finding that ALT+F12 pops me into KDL.  Shouldn't this
> only be done if F12 is hit all by itself?
>
> I did look at ticket 3669, which is similar to what I just typed, so I
> do know that F12 is only temporary.  Perhaps for now though, F12
> should only activate KDL if it is the only key that is pressed at the
> time.  Thoughts?

Personally, I think it should be a little more difficult to get to KDL
by accident ;) I realize the feature is "temporary" currently, but
perhaps it could be made slightly more cumbersome by introducing some
modifier keys into the equation? Perhaps even using the
"Ctrl-Shift-Break" instead?

But, on the brighter side, I recall someone at LinuxWorld asked me how
easy it was to "crash" Haiku and I was able to enthusiastically show
him how easy it was by simply hitting F12!

Somehow, the excitement didn't translate directly though, as he looked
at me with some confusion on his face. Unfortunately at that time
someone else distracted me another question so I didn't get to chat
with him further about Haiku's ease-of-kernel-debugging :(

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