Handle mapping the left & right ctrl & alt keys separately in the keyboard settings
Reported by
4way...@gmail.com,
Apr 29 2016
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 7834.70.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36 Platform: 7834.70.0 (Official Build) stable-channel link Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open up the keyboard settings and try to map the right-alt key to the search key without affecting the left-alt key. What is the expected behavior? I'd like to be able to choose where the search button goes on the left/right ctrl/alt keys w/o affecting them both. For a user that wants to use the key on the left of the "A" for something else (such as caps lock or an extra ctrl), having to sacrifice both ctrl or both alt keys to get a search key is not a workable solution. Being able to choose just the right-alt key for a search key would be a much better solution. What went wrong? The user can only affect both alt or both ctrl keys at once. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 49.0.2623.112 Channel: stable OS Version: 7834.70.0 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0
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Oct 4
> having to sacrifice both ctrl or both alt keys to get a search key is not a workable solution This. The current UI/UX offers users an unequal exchange of key functions. Unless the user is willing to reassign ESC or Backspace, it is not possible to assign only one key to the Search function on a non-default key. I would also postulate that the number of user profiles that contain a reassignment of either <ESC> or <Backspace> is vanishingly small. This begs the question: Why does the current UI even offer to reassign ESC and Backspace? (Perhaps it is only offered for the ability to set them to 'Disabled'.. for kiosk use perhaps?) The chromium project likely has sufficient organic usage statistics to support my postulate; it would be neat if they could share aggregate statistics on this matter with us. I'm fairly certain the hardware on all platforms emit separate and correct KeyDown/Up events for both R_SHIFT and L_SHIFT. |
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Comment 1 by dchan@google.com
, May 18 2016Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)