Re: 1.3a1
Re: 1.3a1
- Subject: Re: 1.3a1
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:03:37 +0100
Mick Mueck wrote:
I was the (ir)responsible person for this change - while beta testing
Leopard I noticed both Alt keys were mapped to Mode_Switch. I checked
several other unix/Linux keyboards and those keys consistently came up
as Alt_L & Alt_R so I put in a request to change them to be consistent
with everything else (that I tried).
I guess this is the core of the dispute that we are are having: What do
we want the keys in X11 to be consistent with? One wish is to have them
consistent with non-X11 Apple apps and the other wish is to have them
consistent with non-Apple X11 programs. We cannot have both.
As an occasional X11 user (nowadays; I used to use it much more
regularly) I am in the first camp: If I have to type Alt-s to get a
certain letter in TextEdit or in TeXshop or Carbon Emacs, then I want
Alt-s to produce this same letter also in nedit or xemacs. And this
means Alt->Mode_switch.
This first wish is one that can be fulfilled, because the keyboard is,
after all, the same whether used with X11 or not.
OTOH, the second wish of being consistent with X11 programs on other
machines can only very incompletely be satisfied, because those other
machines usually have a lot more keys then Apple keyboards.
--
Martin
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