Re: Re: Design for Keyboard Shortcut Behaviour

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:09:49PM +0300, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
> >|   | shutdown : Shut down computer               |   |
> 
> Have you tried to hold down the windows key and type "shutdown" in 
> the same time? That's far from a good UI! I'll call the windows key 
> COMMAND key from this on so it can refer to any key one wishes to 
> use for that.

Please don't use meta-names that actually exist as real
keys. Macintosh keyboards have 'command' keys.

> By this, it should be clear that user should be allowed to customize 
> this menu. It could be that you start Mozilla once a week (and keep 
> it running for the rest of the week) while another user starts and 
> stops Mozilla every 15 minutes. For the latter user it's much more 
> important to have only a few keypresses for the shortcut.

"We're so far ahead of you that you can't even see the tracks". More
on this later.

> >released. In existing interfaces pressing [ctrl]-x to cut takes effect 
> >immediately the x key is depressed, and new commands can now be entered 
> >without first releasing the [ctrl] key (although 'alt-tab' behavious in 
> >existing systems breaks this rule, only taking effect when [alt] is 
> >released)
> 
> I think that the CTRL key should work like it's working right now. 

Well, right now it doesn't work at all. I've only got as far as ISO
9995-3, not CUA events.

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