On 11/ 3/13 06:50 AM, Arvid Brodin wrote:
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- How often do we get new players who use Sun Type 4 Keyboards? Perhaps these
could go? (17 bindings.)
Some of those still can apply for later sun keyboards (using a type 7 here).
Since later keyboards are USB, they work fine on PCs also.
I suspect the F ones can certainly go.
The KP_<name> seem to depend on if numlock is on or off, so in theory can go,
but at same time, I suspect would apply to non sun keyboards if numlock is off.
That said, hitting numlock is not hard, although perhaps a warning in the
client could be added (Your numlock key is off - movement via the keypad will
not work until you turn it on) type of thing. I believe there is some way to
get that status with gtk.
These I don't really know about:
- I've never seen the "Nethack-Style" key layout before. Also, they don't seem
to work in conjunction with the Fire modifier (only N and R). Does the fact
that that bug has never been fixed mean they aren't used at all, perhaps? Or
do people just fix that when they start to play?
Not specific to that, but I suspect people playing on laptops/notebooks lack
the numeric keypad, and just using the 4 direction keys is limiting (there are
probably circumstances where you really need to move or fire diagonally)
- Arrow keys... I *really* like the feature of command history and the prevkey/
nextkey that is available. But these are not bound by default, so perhaps
they
aren't used as much as they could be. On the other hand, using the arrow keys
for this (and not for north/south etc) requires an immidiate help text
whenever
a new character is started, to explain how to move.
I suspect some of that is command history is a more recent feature and
keybinding was never added for it (there are probably lots of commands which
could use keybindings but are lacking them)
Certainly help text could be updated. I wonder if they could be bound to page
up/page down by default (for keyboards that have that - see notebook issue
above) - this way, they will still apply in keybindings for all users, so people
could rebind them to other keys as they see fit.
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