On Dec 14, 2007, at 7:54 PM, jiho wrote:

- what is the difference in essence between Alt and Mode_switch?

Mode_switch in particular seems to be used rather inconsistently

between the OSes, keyboards etc.

- Would there be a problem in using Mode_switch or Alt conversely for

all alt based shortcuts in Inkscape? Is it already the case in some

places?

I'm not sure, since I have no "mode_switch" key on my setups.

I don't seem to have an AltGR key either.

I'll have to dig some stuff up. Recently I did a quick hack on some test code to make it show key combos. I saw a few keys, including meta and some mod friends, but no hyper nor super.

Once it's going, I'm now very convinced that we need to collect such info in some tables on the wiki. Things like language/local, laptop or desktop, OS, etc. will help is narrow down these key issues.