Re: Re: Design for Keyboard Shortcut Behaviour

On 2004-05-25 18:26:54 +0800 Andrew Suffield 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I removed the windows key from my keyboard. The caps lock too. 
Cant we just keep the keyboard simple?