On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:21:38 +0200 "Claes H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> This is an interesting discussion and hopefully some consensus can be > reached. About a year ago I started the Wikipedia page "Table of > keyboard shortcuts" to document which keyboard shortcuts are used on > the major platforms. I thought it would be best maintained on > Wikipedia since it is beneficial if it is reasonably complete also for > non-unix platforms. I think it is quite useful as reference by now. > > I think it can be argued that Alt does not fully belong to the WM. > After all, Alt is the modifier that activates the menu options (such > as Alt+F for the file menu). This is at least since the CUA standard > was published in 1987, which Windows inherits from. Also, Alt is used > as the accesskey in HTML in many browsers, including Firefox. For this > reason, Firefox has disabled Alt as menu accesskey on Unix, and it is > used as accesskey for the browsed content instead, but still not free > for the WM. > > For this reason I think the main distinction for who should listen for > Alt should be between alphanumerical chars and non-alphanumerical > chars. That seems to solve the majority of cases. There is still some > conflict on Alt+cursor keys though. Apart from this, the following > division seems to reflect current practise: > > For use by WM / Desktop > ======================= > > Modifier Additional > > Alt non alphanumerical > Alt+Shift non alphanumerical > Alt mouse > Alt+ctrl any > Alt+shift any > Alt+shift+ctrl any this makes sense and i think summarises a very broad and common usage of modifiers by wm's/desktop elements. > For use by applications > ======================= > > Modifier Additional > > Alt alphanumerical > Alt+Shift alphanumerical > Ctrl any > Ctrl+Shift any > > Since Alt already is split, it might be possible to split "ownership" > of other modifiers as well? might want to change: Alt+Shift any > Claes > -- > C l a e s H o l m e r s o n > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
