On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 17:07 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: > On 9/12/06, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would expect it to work with just one press of Alt. That is the way it > > works on MS Windows and I think it is convenient. Is there any reason > > that it should be harder on GNOME? > > If I am not mistaken, GNOME currently behaves exactly like Windows XP > in this area: Windows XP also requires two presses of alt if you want > alt to be considered to still be pressed down even after pressing a > non-modifier key. Now, I could be mistaken, especially since I do not > have access to a MS Windows system to verify myself, but korn AT > sun.com claimed this at > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102656#c11 and Bill seemed > to verify it later in the same bug report. ;-)
I've just verified that this is exactly the way it works on Windows. It makes perfect sense to me. Pressing a modifier key once modifies the next key stroke, not some indefinite number of keystrokes. To turn the modifier on indefinitely (well, until explicitly turned off), you hit it twice. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
