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@filthyranter Yeah... would you mind fixing (pardon, CONFIGURING) broken Ctrl+Alt shortcuts on 20+ computers every time some software adds a new feature (and a shortcut for it)? Thought so.
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@hitko Shortcuts should have sensible defaults for each locale that should be able to be changed. You can't make perfect shortcuts for all languagea and keyboards, sadly.
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Ctrl+[ shortcuts won't work on SOME layouts, but they fail silently (they don't break anything, you just can't use them). It sucks, but no big deal...
Ctrl+Alt shortcuts are guaranteed to blow up for some users, because they'll be just typing something, and end up triggering a bunch of unwanted actions.
There are at least 200 possible shortcuts in {Ctrl, Alt, Ctrl+Shift, Alt+Shift} + [character], that are guaranteed to fail silently on different keyboard layouts, and about 150 of them are guaranteed to work safely on all latin1 keyboards. Nobody needs that many shortcuts in a single piece of software anyway... -
@hitko well it's kinda a big deal if the shortcut is the only way to perform the function. (still looking at you, Google)
Why do people get an idea that Ctrl+Alt+[character] is a good combination for keyboard shortcuts? Just because your keyboard layout doesn't have a special character for Ctrl+Alt+Z, it doesn't mean other people don't! Did you ever stop to think that more than half buttons on your keyboard already have a Ctrl+Alt (~AltGr) binding, so maybe, just fucking maybe, other keyboard layouts could have that kind of bindings for other buttons as well? You've got 38 published works, you boast your years of experience, yet you can't fucking consider some basic real-world problems when working on a piece of software!
God I fucking hate people like these, with their PhDs and no actual hands-on experience, they're always so smug about their work and expect you to pay them millions, but fail to understand that details like those are why people pick you instead of some cheap student, and that's where their salary comes from.
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