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- Subject: Re: Proposal
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 16:30:33 +0200 (MDT)
- In-Reply-To: <H.ekK.DGvswKm1ppc@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> from "Michel Forget" at May 22, 94 01:37:48 am
- From: Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
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- > True, but there was more to the post than just what characters should
- > be used. I think what order the characters should appear in was
- > questioned.
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- > How about Control (left), Shift (middle), ALT (right), letter (last)?
-
- The de facto standard right now is exactly the other way round
- (alt shift control).
-
- > It looks nice on the screen even if ALL modifiers are used. (Though
- > nobody in their right mind would use ALL modifiers.)
-
- As Control + Alt is already reserved for low-level use by Atari.
-
- > While I'm thinking about this, how can we ensure that the program that
- > changes keyboard shortcuts (by editing the resource strings) has enough
- > room to do so? The programmer would have to leave room for the largest
- > possible shortcut, right? Also (another question) what keys would be
-
- Let's drop the *stupid* idea to put shortcuts into the menu. Anyway,
- my resources are Copyright and shall not be modified by anyone!
-
- If a user changes ^W to cycle windows, then s/he obviously wants to
- do that for all applications at once. Therefore we want something more
- general than hacking into every resource one can lay ones hands on.
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