On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 09:45 +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote: > > Shaun McCance wrote:
> > - With Super do you mean what I call "windows keys"? > > Yes. Underneath Gnome sits X. A full explanation of the > X keyboard model would fry both of our brains, but suffice > it to say that X has traditionally used the terms Control, > Alt, Super, Hyper, and Meta to refer to whatever modifier > keys are configured on whatever keyboard might be attached. > > With the advent of Windows keyboards, the Windows key has > been configured (by most distributions) to be a modifier > key attached to the Super modifier. > > > - What kind of applications actually use Super? > > Very few, because applications generally do not want to > rely on a non-standard key existing. Sun keyboards, for > example, don't have a Super key, though they do have a > Meta key. Cokebottle! http://www.clueless.com/jargon3.0.0/cokebottle.html couldn't resist ;) -- Alan H. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
