On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Michael<mi...@netspark.org> wrote: > Donald Allen wrote: >> I realize that these bindings can be changed. But that requires some >> work (and knowledge of C) on the part of the user. I'm talking about >> the choice of the defaults. Perhaps the keys modified by alt should >> instead be modified by ctrl-alt by default? And similarly, alt-shift >> -> ctrl-alt-shift? I am going to test this idea by modifying my setup. >> I'll let you know how it works out. > > ctrl-alt, alt-shift, ctrl-shift non-english speaking people usually use > those keys for layout change, win-key is perfect solution, but not all > keyboards have those. > there is no default keys to satisfy even majority, i think, so why > bother, if majority will have to edit those keys anyway.
I don't buy that argument. Why not pick the set of defaults that satisfies the largest minority? I've changed my own setup to just map the alt-<non-numeric> bindings to ctrl-alt-<non-numeric>. The alt-<numeric> bindings remain the same, as do the alt-shift-<anything> bindings. The ones I've changed are rarely used, at least by me, and remove the conflicts with things I *do* use, such as alt-f in Firefox, Thunderbird, and anything else with a File menu. So it's a pretty minimal change that's better for me. /Don > >
