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Re: [Unity-dev] HUD activation key

 

I don't like the idea of assigning separate behaviour to left-ALT and
right-ALT by default.

Some keyboards (netbooks, macs, etc.) only have one alt key, and having
buttons with the same label do different things is non-obvious, difficult
to explain, and makes it much more difficult to provide instructions.

Connor



On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Artem Popov <artfwo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2012/3/30 Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi folks
> >
> > From a design point of view, and an engineering point of view, can we
> > offer a choice of left-ALT, right-ALT or CAPS for the HUD activation?
>
> Left ALT is a bad choice because it causes the HUD to needlessly
> appear whenever you switch keyboard layout to international (with
> LAlt+Shift being the default switching combo).
>
> Right ALT would be a better choice, though CapsLock looks good either.
>
> --Artem
>
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