Re: [bug #30538] X11 backend should generate NSBackTabCharacter for shift-tab

[Derek Fawcus]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 08:58:48PM +0000, Fred Kiefer wrote:
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> Update of bug #30538 (project gnustep):
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>                   Status:                    None => Need Info              
>              Assigned to:                    None => FredKiefer             
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> Follow-up Comment #1:
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> Could you please explain the benefit of this change?

Just the general view that has been expressed a few times about how
we should try to mirror OSX behaviour.  It is one less thing to deal
with if/when porting between the two systems.

In this case (and the backspace/delete one) this is not only the
OSX behaviour,  it is also the NeXT OPENSTEP behaviour,  so one
could possibly make an argument that GNUstep has always been wrong.
I don't know what Solaris OpenStep libraries did for this case,
and maybe that would argue in the other direction.

> But this also requires that every application out there that has
> special handling for tab and shift-tab build in will have to add a
> special case for backtab as well.

Yup.  But then I found it because a program I'm writing and testing
on OSX and GNUstep simultaneously needed special case code for this
as things stand.  One way or the other will require extra code.

> Before we go out and break all these application we should know whether it is
> worth it.

That'll have to be someone else's call.  What is compatibility with OSX worth?