On 7/17/07, Michael Reilly <email@hidden> wrote:
> Using the mouse and the keyboard
> together for copying is a question of taste and of habit. In any case,
> Apple's Command-X/C/V for cut/copy/paste has been around since the first
> Mac in 1984,
Time they modernized it - isn't it? No reason it cannot be configurable to meet
the user's requirements 13 years later.
What do you actually want them to do? If they have the same basic keyboard shortcuts on all Macs, you can sit down at any Mac and already know how to copy and paste. I completely agree that being able to customize your desktop/environment is a good thing, but for such basic tasks, I don't see how you can customize any further than that. How exactly do you want to be able to copy and paste in the rest of OS X? Select and middle-click? As you said, X11 has been around as long as the CMD-X/CMD-V shortcuts, so how is the select/middle-click method really any more modern than the keyboard shortcuts?
I've been pretty happy with the integration of X11 into OS X. At least they actually provide it with the OS unlike some other OS vendors that I will not speak of.
I am hoping that with Leopard the integration will be even more clean, but I'm not holding my breath either. :)
- Chris
