On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:10 pm, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:
As to the Alt & Ctrl keypress debate, I'm actually happy enough with it as it is. While I've no objection to some swap around appearing as a preference, I'd like Squeak, by default, to operate the same on all OSs.
So would I.
I want Squeak to behave the same:
I want it to use the normal keys for editing on the Mac: Cmd-whatever I want it to use the normal keys for editing in Windows: Ctrl-whatever I want it to use the normal keys for editing in KDE: Ctrl-whatever
It doesn't bother me that these keys have different names (and positions) on the different machines; because I use other programs besides Squeak I am already used to the different conventions.
The use of the Alt modifier is troublesome on some platforms and with some window managers, as it's often used for window manager commands.
I can (by messing around a bit) define a spare key on my keyboard as a Meta key to use with the window manager, but this isn't standard in XFree86.
Switching the window manager to use a different modifier key is not possible in Windows, AFAIK.
Anyway, the Alt/Ctrl swap (for C,V,X,A, and other keys as desired) has been added as a preference. And the default is to not have those keys swapped.
But I do think that there should be a note somewhere in the Readme.txt or elsewhere about being able to swap those keys (and the mouse buttons).