Re: ALT as a click modifier

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> okay, I'm going to stick my head out, though I guess I'm not that much 
> qualified to answer for I'm using only Apple keyboards for a long time.
Appreciated! Since everything started with making an application more 
"standard" by request of a user. Although there are no real standards, 
it is more a customary thing in this case: we are not speaking about 
copy&paste or menu entries, but a zoom in/out modifier.
> So, how many keyboards are out there without a Windows or other extra key? PC 
> keyboards come along with a Windows key for quite sometime now.
That is true but it is not always available. At work for example I often 
use a remote display and the X server doesn't "pass" the windows key.
Some laptops miss it, etc.

> OpenStep used to map the Alt key to Command and AltGr to the Alt key on 
> traditional PC keyboards (without a Windows key). This should work for GNUstep, 
> too. So I think the 5th option, which you should choose, would be doing nothing 
> at all. Except possibly checking whether the default mapping for our modifier 
> keys is reasonable.
But that works I suppose only on Italian or German keyboards where AltGr 
is actually a different key. A US keyboard has there a normal Alt.

"Doing nothing" has one disadvantage: Even with a "windows" "Super" or 
"command" equipped machine, the *default* setting of GNUstep (which will 
be used by the majority) will result in a non-working zoom option, Thus 
either one reconfigures GNUstep as I do, or I offer some sort of 
customization.

In other words, by prorgam is correct, it is capable of working, but the 
user will need some setup before he can use it.

Riccardo