On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 13:58, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 17:47, Frank Murphy wrote:
> >
> >>>>Yeah, the fn-thing isn't so convienient. Do you have another idea for
> >>>>getting these? Or if they're even necessary? I know that Alt_R is often
> >>>>used for AltGr on European keyboards, but are the others used in a
> >>>>standard way?
> >>>
> >>>Can't think of much else except UAE wanting right ctrl e.g., I thought
> >>>of Mode_switch in particular indeed.
> >>
> >>Actually, the best thing would be to do what Apple does with the keys.
> >
> >
> > What exactly do you mean by that? Same as in Mac OS? It has very
> > different requirements for modifiers, doesn't it?
> Don't you think it would be the best to produce the same characters with
> the same key combinations as in OS X by default (eg. for swiss keyboards
> that ALT-G = @, ALT-8 = {, ALT-6 = ],...) ?
What about apps which use these combos for something else? I agree that
<something>-G should yield @, etc. by default, but I'm not sure that
something can be alt.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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