On Wed, May 09, 2001, Oded Arbel wrote about "Re: Bidi support for Linux":
> also - you are contradicting yourself - doesn't "Nagata Nasata" apply to
> CTRL_SHFT_F vs. CTRL_SHFT too ?
No. As I was trying to explain (please reread my previous posting), Alt
alone vs. Alt-F was deliberately designed to have the "nagata nasata"
property: Alt (in the Windows interface) was designed to pop up a menu.
That's it. Then Alt-F is simply a derivative of that decision (after popping
up the menubar it goes to the "F" menu), not a new binding, so it is very
natural and makes sense (although I personally think that other decision
would make even more sense - but that's another issue).
But you are trying to propose a system where Ctrl-Shift and Ctrl-Shift-F
would do completely unrelated things. In such a system, the "nagata nasata"
property would be a burden - not a natural feature of the interface.
I'm not saying it is impossible to do that or that users can't get used to
it - I am just saying it doesn't make any sense (at least to me).
And I don't think, by the way, that Windows gives any special meaning to
Ctrl-Shift-F (replace F by whatever character) - if I remember correctly
it just does the normal switch-to-Hebrew thing, and doesn't pass this
sequence to the application. So if I'm right, not even Windows does that
strange overloading of Ctrl-Shift that you propose. But please correct me if
I'm wrong here.
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