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- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 15:06:33 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Rick Flashman <rflashma@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
- Subject: Why a unified key-equivalent standard?
- To: Atari GEM Mailing List <gem-list@world.std.com>
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- If we are creating a unified key-equivalent file for all common keyboard
- equivalents...
-
- Why create a universal list of keyboard equivalents? Instead, why not
- create a customized list of keyboard equivalents that makes most sense
- in each country?
-
- It seems to me that with the first development, the second becomes moot.
- If you develop the second one (and people implement them), then the first
- becomes moot (except when customizing a non-standard system).
-
- Personally, I have no interest in Control-U to close a window. I don't
- have a *single* program that does that, it's a longer reach than Alt-Esc,
- and the letter "U" is nowhere in the words "Close Window".
-
- Each country *IS* different. In Spanish "Cierra Ventana" also has no "U",
- and they would probably prefer something like Control-C or Control-V.
-
- Country specific versions of the keyboard file (USA, UK, DEU, etc.) make a
- lot more sense. If software is upgraded to support this file, then we each
- get what we want.
-
- Regarding the name of the file. I think the name KEYBOARD.SYS makes the
- most sense. The SYS ending lets the user know it is a system file and
- serves a global function. Yes, it is YET-ANOTHER-FILE, but that seems the
- easiest way to implement it.
-
- Rick Flashman,
- Gribnif Software
-