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> No, detecting when some text is selected and performing a copy instead of sending the signal Ugh, that sounds awful! The Copy action should always be the sam

> No, detecting when some text is selected and performing a copy instead of sending the signal Ugh, that sounds awful! The Copy action should always be the same action, and it should always copy only, and never do unexpected, possibly harmful, things. Re: Maximize. FWIW I have always preferred the OSX implementation -- it allows me two different window sizes that I can choose myself, and toggle between them. But I'll concede that if you come from Windows, having one of those choices taken away from you feels more natural. :) Re: OneModifierKeyButNotCtrl+C. I can't speak for Windows, but this does not work on Linux. You can screw around with xmodmap and some apps to your heart's content, but you will never configure a GUI/DE-wide key combination for Copy that works in all apps. This is what you get, for free, on all versions of MacOS, ever. Unless your argument devolves to "source code is available". In which case: OK I guess. Re: macOS inflexibility. I mean, sure. And sometimes flexibility is critical. Other times, carefully-chosen defaults and strong consistency is more important. Anyway Linux's flexibility does not provide a path to solve this specific UX design error, so it doesn't help me here. Don't get me wrong. Linux is great, and I choose it and use it happily for many things. I choose other OSes (all Unixes though!) for other purposes. I have specific requirements for my desktop/console/terminal environment which might not match yours. MacOS meets them with default configuration plus some minor tweaks (e.g. focus follows mouse). Linux is not flexible enough to meet those needs, so I do not choose it for that purpose. All good.

wayneftw 6y ago
> This is what you get, for free, on all versions of MacOS, ever. You're trading one slight discomfort (in your opinion) for a thousand others because the rest of macOS is abysmal. There's hidden, undiscoverable functionality everywhere, the window management is absolutely disgusting, the file management is sorely lacking, the amount of tweaking you have to do to get decent terminal utilities is sickening, the hardware choices are extremely limited and the tyrannical company that builds it works regularly to own you. No amount of rationalization will convince me that it's a good OS for anything other than building iOS apps. Thankfully at least I can run a better OS on the hardware once Apple stops supporting it. Unfortunately I still must jump over many Mac hardware obstructions just to get something resembling a normal BIOS so I can even boot something else. It's just disgusting when I have to do it. At least I never gave Apple any money though since I buy it all used. They are the China of the technology world and I wouldn't be proud to support them at all even if their desktop OS was actually desirable. Still, they own half (or more) of the phones in use in the US so I have no choice but to deal with them.
- rbreaves 6y ago
  So let's not convince you, you can still experience what it is like to have a potentially better hotkey layout via my project if you want to try it out. https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto

wayneftw 6y ago

> This is what you get, for free, on all versions of MacOS, ever. You're trading one slight discomfort (in your opinion) for a thousand others because the rest of macOS is abysmal. There's hidden, undiscoverable functionality everywhere, the window management is absolutely disgusting, the file management is sorely lacking, the amount of tweaking you have to do to get decent terminal utilities is sickening, the hardware choices are extremely limited and the tyrannical company that builds it works regularly to own you. No amount of rationalization will convince me that it's a good OS for anything other than building iOS apps. Thankfully at least I can run a better OS on the hardware once Apple stops supporting it. Unfortunately I still must jump over many Mac hardware obstructions just to get something resembling a normal BIOS so I can even boot something else. It's just disgusting when I have to do it. At least I never gave Apple any money though since I buy it all used. They are the China of the technology world and I wouldn't be proud to support them at all even if their desktop OS was actually desirable. Still, they own half (or more) of the phones in use in the US so I have no choice but to deal with them.

rbreaves 6y ago
So let's not convince you, you can still experience what it is like to have a potentially better hotkey layout via my project if you want to try it out. https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto