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Re: Bidi support for Linux
- To: Shai Berger <shai(at-nospam)aristocart.com>
- Subject: Re: Bidi support for Linux
- From: Adi Stav <stav(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 15:08:48 +0300
- Cc: Ivrix Discussions <ivrix-discuss(at-nospam)ivrix.org.il>, Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>, "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>, matial(at-nospam)il.ibm.com, linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
- In-Reply-To: <3AF9286B.444D6CCD@aristocart.com>; from shai@aristocart.com on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:22:19PM +0300
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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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