On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:22:19PM +0300, Shai Berger wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Using Scroll-Lock or Caps-Lock is interesting from the practical point
> > > of view, but from the human interfaces design point of view, it
> > > obfuscates the meaning of keys whose meaning is originally clear,
> >
> > Clear = you got used to it.
> >
>
> I second that,
Personally, I find ctrl-shift on both sides easy to use and remember,
regardless of what I'm used to, and very clear that they imply certain
direction. But maybe that's because I played way too much computer
pinball as a child :)
..lost of good arguments snipped...
> This is the important point: Using modifiers as keys is bad for you.
> AFAIK, you cannot set keyboard shortcuts to ctrl-shift in KDE nor GNOME,
> because for both of them these are not key presses. It would be better
> to have no default bindings, with a Win3.1-like language-icon system,
> than to try to force ctrl-shift to be a legitimate key.
Why not keep ctrl-shift-key passing the event on to whoever was
looking for it, but keep ctrl-shift alone as a direction changer? I
think that's what Windows does, too. I feel that direction change is a
very Meta thing, Meta enough to justify this.
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