[sugar] [PATCH] fix #4646 - replace/normalize some keyboard shortcuts

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Martin Dengler wrote:
>  |      'F12'            : 'volume_up',
>  |      '<ctrl>F11'      : 'volume_min',
>  |      '<ctrl>F12'      : 'volume_max',
>  Given our ctrl/alt/shift distinction, it seems to me that these should be
>  <shift>F11 and
>  <shift>F12
>  This is philosophically consistent with the idea that <shift> makes small
>  letters into BIG LETTERS, and similarly makes small volume changes into
>  maximum volume changes.  Alternatively they could be <alt>F11 and
>  <alt>F12.  But in any event, if we're going to avoid <ctrl> shortcuts in
>  the shell, then these should change too.

Yes, I think alt is the more appropriate key in this case.  The same
is true for brightness.

>  | +    '<alt>0xDC'      : 'screenshot',
>  I think <alt>0x93 would actually be better (this is what I meant to
>  suggest).  In other words, I think "<alt>frame" is better than
>  "<alt>search" for taking a screenshot.  This is because the visual of the
>  frame suggests that it includes the contents of the screen, and is a sort
>  of "picture frame", so there is a nice abstract connection.

I'm personally not ready to attribute the screenshot with the
semantics of these other specialized keys.  I think there may be some
better used for them in the future, and am more content to leave it as
the mostly meaningless alt-1 until we have a clearer direction.  While
the icon on the key is reminiscent of a photo frame, I don't think the
actual semantics of the two functions relate.

- Eben