I'll add to the chorus.

If you are new to Squeak, you don't know how to do this.

I claim Squeak should work in the obvious platform dependent way OOTB,
and those who want uniform bindings on multiple platforms should have to
do the work.  After all, they are the experts, almost by definition.
				Regards,
					- Jim

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 10:26 -0800, Joshua Scholar wrote:
> All I had to do to make some of the keys work the same as windows was:
> 1. click the desktop,
> 2: select "appearance..." from the menu,
> 3: select "preferences..." from the submenu,
> 4: paste the scary dialog box that centers the mouse over "restore my
> personal preferences" knowing from experience with Morphic that the first
> click won't activate the button that the mouse can't escape.
> 5. Enter "duplicateControlAndAltKeys" into search text entry at the top.
> 6. Hit the search button.
> 7. Select the nonstandard looking duplicateControlAndAltKeys checkbox that
> appears without any meaningful explanation.
> 
> I wonder why new users of Squeak won't do such a simple thing?  Lazy I
> guess.
> 
> Seriously, there's an option to make the environment more friendly to new
> users - and it's off by default, undocument and impossible to find.
> _That's_useful_!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>; "Joshua Scholar"
> <jscholar at access4less.net>
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:14 AM
> Subject: Re: "A Word of Caution" to all newcomers
> 
> 
> > > Lex Spoon proposed a fix over a year ago. It got not a single supporter,
> > > and was therefore rejected:
> >
> > Odd. In my images I have two preferences #swapControlAndAltKeys as well
> > #duplicateControlAndAltKeys which seem to cover precisely what you
> describe.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   - Andreas
> >
>