[Kevin Driedger] [snip]
The Smalltalk image from which Squeak is derived was designed to
run with a three-button mouse on an Alto or Dorado computer. These buttons were known as "red", "blue", and "yellow", and some mice really had buttons of these colors.
Win32 machines have only two mouse buttons, so the mapping is: left-mouse -> "red" alt-left-mouse -> "blue" right-mouse -> "yellow"
The Mac has only a single button, so the mapping is: mouse -> "red" cmd-mouse -> "blue" option-mouse -> "yellow"
I believe the mapping of modifier keys is: Mac Win32 Unix shift shift shift ctrl ctrl ctrl cmd alt meta(?) option --- ---
[Kevin Driedger] On my Sun workstation sitting in front of me there are the following keys: shift, ctrl, alt, meta and "Compose".
On any newer Windows machine they have this "Windows" button with the Windows (TM) logo on it (something equivalent to say, the singer formerly known as Prince).
On Linux machines there is a difference between the left and right alt keys where the left key is the compose key.
As a possible solution, we could map the option modifier to say, Ctrl-Shift or Alt-Ctrl.
Re:
On a more general note: Are there any efforts going on that are
related
to making the user input interface more easily configured or
customized,
without the need to change methods in the base system?
Not that I know of.
[Kevin] I guess that is what open source is for, eh?