[sugar] [PATCH] fix #4646 - replace/normalize some keyboard shortcuts
Eben Eliason
eben.eliason at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 15:40:04 EDT 2008
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Martin Dengler wrote:
> | 'F12' : 'volume_up',
> | '<ctrl>F11' : 'volume_min',
> | '<ctrl>F12' : 'volume_max',
> Given our ctrl/alt/shift distinction, it seems to me that these should be
> <shift>F11 and
> <shift>F12
> This is philosophically consistent with the idea that <shift> makes small
> letters into BIG LETTERS, and similarly makes small volume changes into
> maximum volume changes. Alternatively they could be <alt>F11 and
> <alt>F12. But in any event, if we're going to avoid <ctrl> shortcuts in
> the shell, then these should change too.
Yes, I think alt is the more appropriate key in this case. The same
is true for brightness.
> | + '<alt>0xDC' : 'screenshot',
> I think <alt>0x93 would actually be better (this is what I meant to
> suggest). In other words, I think "<alt>frame" is better than
> "<alt>search" for taking a screenshot. This is because the visual of the
> frame suggests that it includes the contents of the screen, and is a sort
> of "picture frame", so there is a nice abstract connection.
I'm personally not ready to attribute the screenshot with the
semantics of these other specialized keys. I think there may be some
better used for them in the future, and am more content to leave it as
the mostly meaningless alt-1 until we have a clearer direction. While
the icon on the key is reminiscent of a photo frame, I don't think the
actual semantics of the two functions relate.
- Eben
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