I use Squeak on multiple platforms, and would be pretty annoyed if I had
to use
cmd-c (alt-c) on the MacOS and ctrl-c on Windows.  I suppose that it
would be OK
if this were configurable, with the default being to use
platform-default keys.

This shouldn't be hard to code, especially since there's a
'swapControlAndAltKeys'
preference.  OTOH, it's not itchy enough for me to scratch it.

Josh


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:34:43 -0800, "Joshua Scholar"
<jscholar at access4less.net> said:
> I think the best thing to change to not alienate windows / mac etc users
> is
> to remap some keys to standard bindings.
> 
> A new user of squeak can't CUT and PASTE for God's sake!  It took me
> three
> days to find out that alt-c was doing what ctrl-c does on every other
> computer I've used in the past twenty years.  I'm sure that plenty of
> people
> less determined than me, realized that they couldn't do basic things and
> gave up.
> 
> As for look and feel, lots of things like keybindings could be machine
> dependent.  After all mac users have to get by with one button mice - so
> I
> know there must be some machine specific mapping.
> 
> While I like the Squeak user interface, I wouldn't complain if it was
> made
> more accessable by giving it a more familar look and feel.  Such things
> can
> be optional I think.
> 
> Joshua Scholar
> 
>