Controls: Possibly rearrange default key assignments

[porg]

It is a good idea to keep START unassigned to leave the possibility for ALT-TAB (switch between windows/apps).

Should there be a SORT action, it would be consistent with PNDManager (a usability champion/pioneer on the Pandora!) to assign it to SELECT. It seems logical as it sort of "selects" (more precisely: "changes") the view of a given data set (list).

[can-derson]

I can follow the logic that the select key selects/changes something, though it doesn't strongly imply sort to me. In any case, as long as the controls are customizable first I'm mostly ambivalent to default key assignments.

Where would the main menu mapping go if select is mapped to this? And, of course, what about others?

Currently, main input events are:

• Activate - B
• Go Back - A
• Select First - Y
• Select Last - X
• Change View - L
• Change Platform - R
• Main Menu - Select
• Context Menu - Space
• Quit (from Menu or fully) - Escape
• Exit Menu (as Gui) - Pandora

[porg]

As you strive to have both a main and a contextual menu (for good reasons! read below), both SELECT and SPACE are taken. TAB is one of the few remaining special-keys then. Quite a logical joice. Reasoning:

• TAB usually cycles through datasets. In this case it cycles not through data-sets, but rather cycles through sort-modes, which themselves then affect data-sets.
• TAB requires 2 neighboring keys (Fn+Space) to be pressed.
  • This avoids an incidental press (good for a special function, which not all users must necessarily use)
  • But still is easily press-able by only 1 hand, even only 1 finger.

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Academic discussion — for readers, which got the time… Theoretically it would be possible to dispose the differentiation between main & contextual menu. It would be possible to have a contextual menu only. In case one is on the top hierarchy (Platform folders) pressing it would bring up the main menu. But sacrificing menu differentiation is bad for multiple reasons:

• It is cumbersome — need to leave context just to get main menu
• Pandafe by concept has no top hierarchy — There are various equal top levels (Platform folders, all games, favorites, …)