On 10/14/05, Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> wrote:
=== Patch first ===
The Patch https://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=93438&atid=604308&...
The Patch assigns F1 to Help, Keys and moves some other keys around mapping them to ones used by Xara.
It would be very helpful if you just gave a full list of old and new key assignments here. Not everyone can read patches, and not everyone has Xara.
The long term solution is of course to have fully switchable keyboard profiles. That doesn't change the need for good defaults and I hope by trying out these ideas (even if they need to be reverted before the next release) it will encourage people who do not like it to come up with better suggestions rather than blocking changes.
Like I said in the bug, any wholesale key reassignment patch is only acceptable if it adds a preference option making it possible to use the old layout as well (in the absense of proper keyboard profile switcher, that is). Whether the new layout becomes on by default depends on how much support it gathers, but in any case, it must not be pushed down my throat if I prefer the old one.
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