Le Samedi 15 Octobre 2005 15:47, Youcef Rahal a écrit : > Yes, I agree. However, the French don't need to switch the keybord > layout in order to type Ctrl+A (nor do they have to care about AZERTY > or QWERTY keyboards): the shortcuts are already latin characters. > However, an Arabic user will have to type shortcuts in Arabic, so why > not set new/'logical' conventions from the start ?
What's the logic in setting Ctrl+Z for cancel, Ctrl+X for Cut, Ctrl+C for copy and Ctrl+V for paste? X looks like scissors , C comes from Copy . But the most important thing is that Cancel , Cut, Copy, Paste are the closest actions to ctrl ! I agree that some shortcut conventions come from linguistic reasons but you should take in consideration usability reasons. Also, in a bilingual environment it's difficult to get used to two different shortcut keys maps. Do you have any idea about arabic key shortcuts in Windows and Mac OS ? We could probably simply copy windows and mac so conventions. Anyway, is it technically possible to make Ctrl+Z Ctrl+X ... work when using the arabic keymap, not only in Firefox but in all X apps ?? _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
