On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 17:06 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 12:36 AM Tim via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 10:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > The first thing the intro to gnome 42 tells me is to use the
> > "Super"
> > key. There is no key labelled "Super". Some hint about alternate
> > names might help the newbies the intro is presumably designed
> > to help (experimentation revealed it was the Start key :-).
>
> Yes, since we don't use these all the time I often have to look
> them up
> (and find conflicting info). And you can can change some of them.
>
> Generally, the super key = logo key (it has the Mac or Windows logo
> on
> it), though you may need to have configured it yourself,
> beforehand.
>
> Meta *can* be the right ALT key (AltGr on some keyboards).
>
If the installation is GUI-based, would it make sense to show
drawings of the Mac/Windows keys in the install/setup instructions,
so new/forgetful users know what to look for?
One thing I've always admired about the MacOS UI (among a bunch of
things I don't like about it) is the keyboard widget, which is always
available. Click on it and you get the layout of the keyboard, but it's
*dynamic*. Press Shift, Ctrl, Command etc. and the layout shows you
exactly what character will be produced (you can also copy it to the
clipboard of course). Some time ago I asked on the list if there was
anything comparable on Linux, but apparently there isn't.
poc