[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] key assignment for frame-stepping

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Fri Oct 15 03:55:07 CEST 2004


On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:13:29AM +0300, Ville Saari wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:20:26PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
> > I saw that the 's' key is already taken by two other functions, so I'd 
> > like to change it to something else. I though '.' to be quite suitable...
> 
> Using punctuation keys for default key bindings is a bad idea because
> different localized keyboard layouts have a bad habit of moving them
> around or hiding them under modifier keys.

the same could be said about letters, since dvorak keymaps have a
nasty habit of rearranging them so that they're awkward to use as
control keys... :)

rich




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