bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> writes:
No it's not, actually. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is just one of about 800 possible key combinations (100 keys multiplied by 8 modifier combinations with three modifiers - Ctrl, Alt, Shift), so stealing it
A minor correction: There are potentially seven modifiers, not counting (caps) lock: Control, Shift, Mod1 through Mod5.
Typical mice have five buttons (left/middle/right, scroll up/down), although IIRC the protocol supports more.
So in coefficient is potentially ~1/12800 versus 1/640.
by the window manager reduces the pool of keys available to applications by 1/800. With mouse, however, there are only 8 ways to click with 3 modifiers, so stealing one of them leaves me with 1/8 less mouse combinations, which is much worse (plus the stolen combination is a top-level one, using only one modifier, so it can even be argued to be closer to 1/4, not 1/8). So I feel quite justified in taking it back.
Indeed, I have all my WM-level bindings use the Hyper key, which is mapped to the key between Control and Alt on my US/105 keyboard.
It's up to you what to use, of course, but I don't think we must make our editing interface less rich or less convenient in order to accommodate a convetion used on only one of the three platforms that we support.
Oh, sorry, are we speaking of Aqua or Windows? Forget I spoke.