[Regarding the "win" key.
On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
Au contraire, I used to feel this way, but once I got used to them I
realized that they made it possible to use Windows nearly sans mouse.
That's another reason for my hatred of the Win key.
You see, prior to the makeover in Windows 95, it was possible to use
Windows completely sans mouse with the ALT key as the application-
and context- independent shortcut to the entire user interface. AND
you only needed to know maybe 5 or 6 key combinations to navigate to
any control on the screen.
Windows 95 brought in the task bar, and that was half-a-window-and-
half-not. And you needed control-escape to get to the start menu, and
a bunch of other crap, so they added the Windows key.
I don't use the Windows key because everything you list is _already_
accessible through the existing keystrokes on Windows, and nothing in
that list is anything important enough or that I use often enough to
make saving one keystroke getting to it worth having to program a
different set of finger macros for when I'm using Windows.
Also, [win]+[f] brings up the search ("find") window, though here it
does default to that fucking puppy that Clippy gave birth to, unless
you've managed to fix XP to use the old search interface. So it's
useful, but also annoying, and possibly ultimately frustrating if
searching in training-wheels "puppy mode" doesn't work for you.
This is the one that really pisses me off, because I'm used to
command F getting me to the FAR more useful search function in the
current application.
Which brings me to my hate of Microsoft using CONTROL for application
commands AS WELL AS for command line OS level controls. My hatred
when I started using Windows and had to keep track of whether I was
in a DOS application (where control C was "kill application") or
Windows (where control C was copy) was right up there with the
command/control/q/w hate on this list.
As for the menu key, show me any other way to bring up a context menu
for the current focus (highlighted) item without using the mouse.
There is a key combination for that, but I'd have to boot my Wintendo
to bring back my finger macros for that and I'm not going to take the
time this morning.
