Re: [Usability] sticky keys and alt-tab

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 17:07 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 9/12/06, Lennart Borgman <lennart borgman 073 student lu se> wrote:
> > I would expect it to work with just one press of Alt. That is the way it
> > works on MS Windows and I think it is convenient. Is there any reason
> > that it should be harder on GNOME?
> 
> If I am not mistaken, GNOME currently behaves exactly like Windows XP
> in this area: Windows XP also requires two presses of alt if you want
> alt to be considered to still be pressed down even after pressing a
> non-modifier key.  Now, I could be mistaken, especially since I do not
> have access to a MS Windows system to verify myself, but korn AT
> sun.com claimed this at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102656#c11 and Bill seemed
> to verify it later in the same bug report.  ;-)

I've just verified that this is exactly the way it works
on Windows.  It makes perfect sense to me.  Pressing a
modifier key once modifies the next key stroke, not some
indefinite number of keystrokes.  To turn the modifier
on indefinitely (well, until explicitly turned off), you
hit it twice.

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Shaun