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

Eben Eliason eben.eliason
Tue Apr 29 13:00:02 EDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>  Eben Eliason wrote:
>  | ALT - "alternate" shortucts...modifications of the corresponding
>  | primary shortcuts, eg. "copy and erase" (cut)
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>  | Of course, now that you point it out, I think that ctrl-esc might be
>  | the only global non-ALT shortcut.  So if others argue strongly against
>  | using ctrl-esc, I'll leave it to a democratic decision.
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>  I think alt-esc might be better, for consistency.  It's also entirely
>  consistent with your description above.  Personally, I usually think of
>  "cut" as a strengthened, more dangerous form of copy.  Similarly, alt-esc
>  (close this window) is a strengthened, more dangerous form of Esc, which
>  typically means something like "request politely to leave current action".

Yup...makes sense.  This is why I certainly don't feel the need to
argue against it.

- Eben



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