[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #6365: Switching keyboard shortcut accelerator key should not remap keys
- From: "rq" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:22:40 -0000
#6365: Switching keyboard shortcut accelerator key should not remap keys
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Reporter: rq | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Preferences/Keymap | Version: R1/alpha2
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
Blocking: |
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Switching keyboard shortcut accelerator key should not remap keys, but
should actually only switch shortcuts instead (if possible). The problems
with remapping are:
* the keyboard shown in Keyboard Layout preflet swaps keys (cf #6362), and
that's not intuitive, because at the same time key names change in the
menu.
* terminal applications begin expecting different shortcuts, e.g., Alt+C
instead of Ctrl+C for quiting. That's very inconvenient for terminal
users.
* potentially, other applications will also suffer. For example, I had a
great inconvenience when I swapped Cmd and Ctrl in OS X's preferences, and
vmWare Fusion began treating Cmd as Ctrl and vice-versa (thus I had to use
Cmd-shortcuts in Windows running in vmWare until I updated it to a version
that allowed me to remap shortcuts).
Generally, I think an application should always be able to know which
exactly physical key was pressed if it needs it. I suspect that simply
swapping keys deeply in the OS, like we seem to be doing here, is sort of
limiting.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6365>
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