Re: Advanced preferences, was Re: 1.3a1
Re: Advanced preferences, was Re: 1.3a1
- Subject: Re: Advanced preferences, was Re: 1.3a1
- From: Vincent Lefevre <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:08:55 +0100
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On 2007-11-22 20:59:56 -0800, Ben Byer wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Robert Tillyard wrote:
>
>> On 21 Nov 2007, at 07:03, Martin Costabel wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
This is probably the default configuration. To be able to type
alternate characters easily, I always changed the Alt keys to
Mode_Switch on my X11-based machines (with xmodmap).
>>> 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.
Well, non-Apple X11 programs aren't consistent with each other anyway.
For instance, some programs (e.g. Firefox) call the mod1 key "Alt"
while others (e.g. xterm) call it "Meta".
> If we want to go down that route with X11.app (now that the two have
> been merged into one), our best bet would be to make an "Advanced" tab
> of the preference panel -- this tab would probably not appear at all in
> the "Official" Apple version (although we could probably make it so that
> the same options could be set from the command line using the 'defaults'
> command.).
The problem of an "Advanced" tab is that it makes config options
appear not in a consistent way. An "Expert" mode (where options
appear at the right place, but only when this mode is enabled) may
be a better solution.
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