Re: [Usability] Standard application shortcut keys

[Leif <leif zuu gmail com>]

David Christian Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:19 +0200, Samuel Abels wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-31-03 at 17:21 +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
> >
> > > > I think that more "handy" for copying is ctrl+insert, shift+insert for
> > > > paste, and ctrl+del for cut.
> > >
> > > Also I don't
> > > see, how you can use them with one hand only
> >
> > Maybe your keyboard layout has these keys positioned elsewhere? I use
> > them with one hand, with a German or English keyboard this is easy.
>
>
> Well, I'm using a laptop with a German keyboard layout. You actually can
> access them, it just feels _very_ strange to me, because I never used it
> and you need to span you hand over the whole keyboard (which should be
> true for a standard keyboard aswell).
Well, most laptops does only have one CTRL key at the left side. But 
however on standard keybords there use to be two CTRL keys. The right 
one is located close to Insert and Delete.

So if you have a laptop and have your mouse on the left side of the 
computer (which I do) you might have use of a standard keybord. (right 
hand users will might also have use for a standard keybord too.)
> > I'm fairly certain that the x/c/v keys differ depending on the locale
> > though.
>
>
> Hmm, they're at the same spot on German and English keyboards after
> all :)
>
> David
>
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