On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:13:55 +1000
Steven D'Aprano <steve@...> wrote:

> On 02/09/13 05:22, Frank Lienhard wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> For all those deactivating SAK, please give this a quick read:
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key
> [...]
> > I think the biggest annoyance was "the same keys" (at least to me). Maybe a more UNIX like combination will ease the pain?
> 
> Oh come now. Windows uses the spacebar to insert spaces, do you configure your machine to map the spacebar to another character and use C-M-y to insert spaces, just to avoid using the same keys as Windows?
> 
Not at all, baybe I should have got that clearer: I understand that in some env there is a use of the SAK. So first was the annoyance to be "forced by default" to use it. And the other is more the "Is it really important to have to use both hands, just because someone selected these keys". In some cases it could be nice to be able to use just one hand (e.g. I broke mine a while ago, not to mention disabled).

BTW: the spacebar analogy don't fit (WIN does't invented that and I indeed alter my keyboard a lot: get rid of CAPS_LOCK and use it for some extra characters, use the noe Layout etc..)