On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Rick White wrote:
Flower+Tab is to Alt+Tab
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but don't have the (otherwise) useless button.
Flower/Apple/Command+Tab and Flower/Apple/Command+Shift+Tab on Mac OS X is the fast way to switch apps, and you can select the app of interest with the mouse pointer.
It has always puzzled me that Microsoft went to the trouble of adding a meta key and then proceeded to ignore it. What is the key combination for creating a new folder in Windows Explorer? WindowsKey +E gives a new explorer window, but otherwise, I find the keys useless. <sarcasm> Way to improve the usability!</sarcasm> At least Apple got it right from the beginning: ctrl is for sending control commands to TTYs: use the ancient symbol for "command" and create a meta-key which all apps can rely on.
Habituation dies hard, so pretty graphics go a long way to persuade people to try something new.
have a day.yad jdpf
