One of the earlier messages mentions that other toolkits (GTK?)
is more user-friendly about this.
Shouldn't that be one of the elements in the discussion ?
Another thought in the "LessTif should not deviate from Motif"
issue is that maybe this is an innovation that LessTif introduces,
and that OpenMotif might choose to follow.
Danny
> >>I have already written about that, but since a review is begun I'll
> >>repeat it: by my experience OSF-Motif and its kin (that I have used:
> >>Motif on SGI IRIX, and OpenMotif on Linux) do *not* have this feature; I
> >>mean, they do *not* recognize accelerators when Lock is on; and Lesstif
> >>should avoid behavioral incompatibilities.
> >
> > I thought that OSF Motif 1.2 _did_ have this feature, but I just proved
> > myself wrong. People only started complaining about it when we changed to
> > Lesstif because at the same time we changed the accelerators for
> > Cut/Copy/Paste in our software to the Ctrl-X/Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V that everybody
> > expects so they just started using them. Before they were Shift+Del,
> > Ctrl+Ins, and Shift+Ins which nobody used and therefore didn't notice the
> > problem.
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