Kuba Ober wrote: [...] > 3. I personally don't care, but for many others it *is* a real big issue: why > on earth doesn't one show the real modifiers in the UI, but the logical ones? > Logical modifiers are for people who deal with xlib, it's nothing for normal > users to know about. If the logical "Meta" modifier is an Alt key, why not > just show it like that? I presume it's very easy to determine to what key the > meta is bound to. Meta is an X concept. How is the user supposed to know > that: > - M-m something means Meta-m something, and that > - Meta on his particular system means Alt?
Actually, lyx can't know that it says "alt" on that key. It is a reasonable assumption when running on a pc, but remember that lyx runs on machines where the keyboard has a "meta" key. And then there are machines with both alt and meta. Lyx has roots in a unix environment, unix has had the meta key for a long time. Now it has moved onto intel pcs too, where alt is used for meta purposes. > I presume there are many of us who have to tell our > wives/secretaries/editors/whomever again and again that M-m is Alt-M. The > question I always hear is "why not at least A-m". After hearing the meta > story, the answer I hear is "whatever" and the "M-x = Alt-x" ends up on a > post-it on the monitor ;-)) Alternatively, write/engrave "meta" on the alt-key. :-) Helge Hafting
