Re: Couple of Suggestions



On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 12:08 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> On 10/19/2009 10:57 AM, iain wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:34 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> >> On 10/19/2009 06:46 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 09:29 +1100, William Madden wrote:
> >>>> to the window I want. It would be better if alt-tilde on its own
> >>>> brought up the display and started changing windows of the current
> >>>> app.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know what alt-tilde is used for, but it's an awful combination
> >>> for people who use keyboard layouts with dead-keys.
> >>
> >> On a US English keyboard, ` and ~ are on the key above Tab, 
> > 
> > Thats the problem though, key placement: On a UK English keyboard ~ is
> > the shift option on the key beside the return key on the complete
> > opposite side from the tab key and alt-~ would just be awkward to use.
> 
> Um... ok, so I can't tell if my last message was actually unclear or if
> you just didn't finish reading it, but:
> 
>   1. The binding is supposed to be "Alt + whatever key is above Tab on
>      *your* keyboard". That is, it is defined in terms of a key that is
>      physically located in a particular position, not in terms of a key
>      that generates a particular keysym.
> 
>   2. Currently that is not implemented, and the binding is just "Alt+`"
>      for all users. This is a bug. (Specifically, it's bug 596231.)
> 
>   3. We haven't bothered to fix the bug yet because it has not been
>      conclusively decided that we're keeping the binding, or that we're
>      keeping it bound to "the key above Tab, whatever that may be".
> 
> -- Dan

What if there is no key above the tab? On my laptop, a Toshiba Satellite
M100, the tab is the upper-most key on the left side - although I guess
you could argue that the 1 or the Esc key is 'above' it.
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