[quake3] Some Mac usability issues
Bobby Bingham
bingham.21 at osu.edu
Wed Feb 8 00:01:16 EST 2006
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:49:50 -0800
Seth Willits <seth at freaksw.com> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
>
> >> I'd like to avoid OS-specific key combinations for consistency and
> >> to prevent things like what you mentioned from happening.
> >
> > There _will_ be people that want Apple-Q to quit the game on Mac
> > OS X...I always end up adding an #if MACOSX block that catches
> > that key combo to everything I work on...
> >
> > Other than that, people are usually willing to accept the usual
> > Linuxy things (ctrl-g, alt-enter) across platforms.
>
> I didn't know alt-enter was a Linuxy thing! I just thought it was
> a... game... thing. I picked it up from AA. MMmmm.... AA.
>
I'd say that's more a Windowsy thing, first used (AFAIK) by the Windows
DOS prompt, but later by Media Play and a whole slew of games.
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Bobby Bingham
"A flying pig is way more useful than a girl"
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