Re: Keyboard shortcut challenges

Hi Yogesh,

The difference between other editors and pgAdmin is that pgAdmin can run on
the web. Which means, a pgAdmin server hosted on linux can be opened on a
Mac machine browser.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 10:49 AM Yogesh Mahajan <
yogesh(dot)mahajan(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Aditya,
>
> What is the behaviour of the other editors with respect to Meta Key? If
> they do not treat Meta key differently, then we shouldn't.
>
> Thanks,
> Yogesh Mahajan
> EnterpriseDB
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 4:44 PM Aditya Toshniwal <
> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just came to my mind - We could add one more checkbox - "Is Meta?" for
>> Ctrl. That way - users will have more control.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 4:26 PM Aditya Toshniwal <
>> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hackers,
>>>
>>> I'm working on removing the usage of Access Keys(which varies based on
>>> OS and Browser combination) for keyboard shortcuts and instead use
>>> shortcuts similar to all other IDEs.
>>> The challenge here is OS. MacOS has an extra key - Meta, which pgAdmin
>>> doesn't take as part of keyboard shortcut currently. In fact, Mac can take
>>> Ctrl separately.
>>> pgAdmin can run as a web app so it's even more difficult. It is not
>>> possible to have multiple shortcuts based on the OS of the browser.
>>> I suggest we consider Ctrl as Meta when running on a Mac.
>>> Please let me know what you think.
>>>
>>>
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>> Aditya Toshniwal
>>> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
>>> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
>>> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Aditya Toshniwal
>> pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
>> <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
>> "Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"
>>
>

--
Thanks,
Aditya Toshniwal
pgAdmin Hacker | Sr. Software Architect | *enterprisedb.com*
<https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
"Don't Complain about Heat, Plant a TREE"