On Nov 23, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
Hi folks,
It occurs to me that there's a modifier binding that could make most
people happy. The motivation is that in most unix software these days
Ctrl and Alt are the most-used modifiers by far. See for example
<http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/2289.html>. So why are we
wasting one of our precious modifiers on Meta?
This is actually historically interesting... The PC keyboard was
built without meta, so when they needed a key to do what meta did,
they just used alt in some cases and ctrl in others. Because of
windows' popularity, gtk, qt, kde, etc have followed suit and gone
with the same control keys by default as windows (using alt where meta
would've been used). OSX, otoh, uses command to do what meta did.
As such, there is really no well-defined "correct" way. I think
setting up the default keyboard layout the way it was on tiger with
the added option of allowing user customization (via defaults or
"hidden" preferences pane) is probably the best option.
--Jeremy
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