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Provide a preference to use opt instead of alt to match modern Mac keyboards which label that key "option"

Open mtrifiro opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

I suggest two changes:

  1. When typing Mac shortcuts, allow using either opt or alt to specify that modifier key.
  2. Have a global setting that displays the shortcut using either the alt or opt modifier regardless of how it was originally entered.

mtrifiro avatar Mar 26 '22 15:03 mtrifiro

Hi!

Thanks for your suggestion! I was thinking about something like this when originally implementing it. However, I thought it would be cool if KeyCombiner could help standardize key names across platforms. Some macOS keyboards even additionally have the alt label depicted on the Option key.

This decision felt pretty good until now as nobody complained. I guess this changed now :sweat_smile:

I will consider it for future updates!

tkainrad avatar Mar 27 '22 06:03 tkainrad

Make it a settable option. It slows my down to have to do the mental translation every time.

mtrifiro avatar Aug 14 '22 15:08 mtrifiro