#1917 closed enhancement (fixed)
Resolve Delete hotkey issue on Mac keyboards
Reported by: | historic_bruno | Owned by: | wraitii |
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Priority: | Nice to Have | Milestone: | Alpha 24 |
Component: | Core engine | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Patch: |
Description
As discussed on the forum, the Delete key on Mac keyboards behaves like the Backspace key on PC keyboards, so wxWidgets and SDL treat it like a backspace. This is confusing for Mac users because they see the word "Delete" but it doesn't work for our Delete hotkeys, nor does it act like they expect (they have to press Fn+Delete instead, or a second, forward delete key if the keyboard has one).
Possible solutions:
- combine Backspace+Delete, but then we lose Backspace as a possible hoykey (it's used for timewarp mode currently), maybe that's acceptable
- special case some hotkeys for OS X, but what happens if a Mac user has a PC keyboard or vice versa - admittedly an uncommon scenario
- implement hotkey sets, OS X users would start with a set specially chosen for Mac keyboards
- change nothing and document that Mac users must press Fn+Delete to delete units?
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 3 years ago
Owner: | set to |
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Resolution: | → fixed |
Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 by , 3 years ago
Milestone: | Backlog → Alpha 24 |
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