Re: How to localize keyEquivalent="q"?

[David Chisnall]

On 24 Jun 2010, at 19:22, Robert Slover wrote:

> The Command-z came along much later, along with Undo, and I can't justify it. 
>  The others I remember reading explanations of long ago.  The title that 
> comes to mind is "The Macintosh is not a Typewriter!", but that may not be 
> the right book.  


I could be making this up, but I seem to recall that command-z was chosen for 
its location.  The z is in the bottom-left corner on a qwerty keyboard and it 
right next to command, making this an easy to type.  Given Raskin's 
everything-must-be-undoable belief, this makes sense; backtracking if you do 
something wrong should be easy.  

Which, by the way, introduces another problem with localising shortcuts.  Some 
are chosen based on their location on the keyboard, not their letter.  These 
should (in an ideal world) be localised to the keyboard layout, rather than to 
the language.  I'm not sure if OS X does this, but some other operating / 
windowing systems do.

David

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