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It's not really "invented" so much as having been called the "super" key for a long time by Unix convention, and having been adopted by Microsoft to become the
by nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
It's not really "invented" so much as having been called the "super" key for a long time by Unix convention, and having been adopted by Microsoft to become the Windows key where it actually showed up on consumer keyboards. If you look at a classic Solaris keyboard for example, you'll find four classic modifier keys: control, alt, meta, and super.
- rvkennedy 16y agoThat doesn't matter. If you want normal people to use Ubuntu, you don't start on at them about Unix conventions.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y agoYou also can't just demand people who have been using naming conventions for twenty plus years to write off that history just because Microsoft decided to use something different. I'm pretty sure Ubuntu adoption rate isn't affected in the least regardless of whether you call it the Super key or Windows key, or Logo key, or any of the other names it's gotten over the years. "Normal people" don't ever use that key anyways.
- andybak 16y ago1. You can if they are in a very small minority. 2. It's not about adoption. It's about usability. Everyone will know what you mean if you call it 'the Windows key'. The same is not true if you call it 'the Super key'.