Re: Debian menus policy

[mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > If you would like to improve and standardize things, why don't you work
> > to make the little menu key that comes on most PCs these days pull
> > up the standard Debian menu?  Certainly, this is one behavior that I
> > think everyone can agree on.  This key works on my laptop, since I've
> > customized my system to use it, but AFAIK, it does not work by default
> > on a standard Debian system.
> 
> Good idea, and this should certainly be done, but it's a shame there's
> no common thing you can do with the mouse for this purpose. I think a
> lot of people, especially those coming from a Mac or Windows background,
> will automatically look for something to click on.

The menu key, perhaps, but not the "Windows key", please: I use that for Meta 
in Emacs, and I suspect many others do as well.

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