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A cool concept. Probably most useful for people migrating from Windows? Cmd + Q is second nature after a while.
by pensatoio 4y ago
A cool concept. Probably most useful for people migrating from Windows? Cmd + Q is second nature after a while.
- andybak 4y agoYou're assuming a group who are generally aware of shortcut keys and utilize them. That's probably the minority.
- omnibrain 4y agoGerman Windows users usually discover how to close applications by shortcut very quickly. Usually when they try to write their first email on a Mac.
- joombaga 4y agoWhy?
- SyrupThinker 4y agoOn the German keyboard layout the “@“ Symbol is entered by holding the “AltGr” modifier to the right of the space bar and pressing “Q”. So on the German Mac layout you are holding the Command key and pressing Q, closing the Application. The right input would be Option-L.
- BuckyBeaver 4y agoUnfortunately, Apple proponents love to smugly point to hotkeys as if "it's so simple." Great example: Apple's bizarre and petty refusal to put a real Delete key on its laptop or non-full-sized keyboards. They only have a Backspace key, mislabeled "delete." This means that millions of users are arrowing (or moving the insertion point by hand) across the characters they want to delete and backspacing them away. Apple apologists will howl, NOOOO! Command-delete! As if any normal user (especially switching from another platform) would guess this. And yes, they would have to guess this, because it's not marked on the keyboard. This became doubly inexcusable with the deprecation of the Eject key. It's not as if Apple could pretend that there was "no room" for a Delete key... not that they could anyway, since everyone else manages to provide one.
- madeofpalk 4y agoMac is the only operating system with keyboard shortcuts? I don't think there's a wrong or a right way here, there's just what you're used to. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure if I completely understand your complaint - I almost exclusively use Windows and I'm not really sure what the Delete key does but is just 'reverse backspace'? I never use it.
- BuckyBeaver 4y agoNobody said the Mac is the only operating system with keyboard shortcuts, so maybe you're replying to the wrong comment there. The Delete key deletes the character to the right of the insertion point; the Backspace key deletes the character to the left. You must be wasting a lot of keystrokes! A Delete key also deletes stuff; like E-mails, files... any currently-selected item in most applications. I don't "backspace" E-mails or other objects to delete them.
- madeofpalk 4y agoI guess I just don't delete stuff from left-to-right - most of the time I'm undoing a typo I've just typed, so backspace feel more appropriate. Otherwise decades of habit just has me put the cursor to the right of characters I want to remove. Again, I don't think either is more inherently correct, there's just what you're used to.
- BuckyBeaver 4y agoUnfortunately, Apple has decided that Backspace IS "more correct." Everyone else has been providing both keys for decades. If you do a lot of editing, and certainly programming, you quickly chafe at the lack of a Delete key. I've been using Karabiner on the Mac to remap F12 to be Delete, losing the Volume-up control in the process. Annoying, but worth it.
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- Tagbert 4y agoOr File/Quit which is the explicit way to quit an app.