Re: [libreoffice-users] Macintosh Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Hi :)
You might have more luck asking the devs or posting as a feature request (ie post as a bug-report 
but use the drop-downs to select "feature request" somewhere, i'm not sure which of the drop-downs, 
sorry!).  

I would go for feature request just to avoid dealing with the potential religious war that happens 
everywhere else about different OSes.  I'm not sure our devs go in for that as they seem too 
prolific to have time for that sort of thing.  
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Fri, 1/6/12, Mark Simon <mark@manngo.net> wrote:

From: Mark Simon <mark@manngo.net>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Macintosh Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 1 June, 2012, 13:48

Flogging a dead horse, perhaps, but I would like to see some sort of resolution to this.

LibreOffice writer allows you to create custom keyboard shortcuts. It appears that the Macintosh is 
somewhat possessive about system shortcuts, and so the Macintosh version does not behave as 
expected.

A large number of available keyboard shortcuts use the control key (^) -- as opposed to the command 
key. I assume that control key short cuts on Macintosh correspond to Windows alt-key short cuts, 
while command key short cuts on Macintosh correspond to Windows control-key shortcuts.

On the Macintosh, control-key shortcuts do not work at all. If you assign a control-key shortcut to 
any operation (I am trying to assign them to styles, but I have tried other operations), it will 
either be ignored (such as control-H) or by hijacked by the Macintosh system operation (such as 
control-h).

Now, somebody has gone through the effort of putting the control-key symbols in the corresponding 
list, so I assume that it's supposed to work.

Is there anybody with a Macintosh who can throw some light on this? Surely one of the developers of 
the Mac version? The only clue I can offer is that I have downloaded the NeoOffice product and 
failed there as well, so it may be a bug inherited from further back.

Thanks,

Mark


On 2/03/12 10:31 AM, Mark Simon wrote:

> A few months ago I was happy to acquire a new Macintosh (running OSX 10.7). When the salesperson 
> suggested I could also buy M$Office for the Mac, I laughed and said "Why would I want to do that? 
> I've got LibreOffice", or something like that.
>
> However I cannot work out how to get those ... keyboard shortcuts going. On my Windows version, I 
> used the alt key, particularly for my custom styles. The Mac version seems to use the control 
> key, which is OK, but then completely ignores my assigned shortcut, which is not OK.
>
> I have lodged a but, but nobody seems to have noticed.
>
> Or have I missed something incredibly obvious ...?


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