On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Philipp Lohmann
<philipp.lohm...@sun.com> wrote:

> Right, I remember now. However when pressing the windows key, the normal
> reaction is that the windows startmenu pops up, isn't it ?

Yes, that's correct. I just tested it on my wife's computer.

> At the moment I  am not sure though whether this is true also for the right
> windows key ; I'll check.

Same behavior as the left Windows key. Windows menu appears.

> The context menu key is also already in use for popping of the
> context menu.

Yes, that's correct too.

>From user's point of view, it has no sense to assign Windows keys and
Menu key to MOD3 modifier.

> One COULD think about using only the right Alt key (aka Alt
> Gr) or the right context menu key for MOD3; however that would probably be
> unexpected. If we decide to do that we need a configuration option for that.

Same opinion here.

> On the X11 platforms you can use one of those to mean "meta" which is used
> all the time by emacs (though that is the only application that comes to
> mind using the meta modifier). This however would be straight forward.

I'll do this for Linux. Meta will be MOD3.

> Currently I tend to think so. But I'll check when I'm back on my windows
> system.

>From my tests on Windows, there's no way for Windows keys or Menu key.
I think that AltGr as MOD3 will be confusing for users. I'm voting for
bMod3 = FALSE on Windows. Please, can you discuss this with mba if he
is around your office?

Regards,
-- 
Robert Vojta

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