I don't know how many Polish people who owned a Radeon card in the 2000s are there on HN but I'm sure they can all relate :-) as the card software would overwrite the key combination used to type the letter "ć" and open the Catalyst Control Center instead. Argh!
Sometimes I wonder if there will come a day when everyone just switch to IME based inputs for all semantic text entries. "anthropomorphillistic" is "anth[tab][tab][tab]", "Здравствуйте" is "zdravstvuyte[space]", "豚骨醤油" is "tonkotsusshouyu[space]" and so on. In IME off state input reverts to US.
It might lead to a dystopia where typing o-r-a-n-g-e somehow yields "a bright spectrum at dusk" but that's an issue for a separate discussion.
I would hate to type my language in English letters. Which English letter do I use for ח? How about ע? What about needing to add a צירי to a letter? How about the occasional RLM mark?
And forget about the technical aspects, the cultural aspects of suggesting to use a foreign alphabet to write in one's native language is insulting. This is a technique often used by conquerors, just ask any southern ex-Soviet state. Even if the Japanese have accepted it due to technical limitations.
That's why Ctrl+Alt hotkeys should be avoided completely. Someone hasn't told Jetbrains, though, and as a user of US International I run into a fair number of weird issues due to that.
I just don't remember what DOS game it was that had actions linked to all of CTRL, ALT and DEL.
It were some actions that one wouldn't usually use together. I, as a bad gamer just didn't at all, but some people were able to put more commands per second there...
I worked at a gaming event a while back, where the players were using hardware we had bought them to match what they had at home. One of them changed the crouch binding from Ctrl to alt (to use the thumb) and the default bindings for the keys on his moise were f1 through f4... He alt+f4'ed out of his competitive game in the middle of the round, twice, before we actually figured out what was wrong.
Wait you mean the GeForce Experience overlay? I must have reassigned that right after installation so I didn't remember. But at least this one warrants having a hotkey in the first place!
I've reassigned it to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+] because that is one of the key combinations I'll never press accidentally... or intentionally, for what it matters: what do I need this overaly for anyway? Also, it's also somehow easily memorizable, after all, I still remember it after 4 years since I've bought my NVidia graphics card.
While I agree that the specific hotkey used for the overlay is unfortunate,
> what do I need this overaly for anyway?
The overlay allows you to access a number of functions in games, much like the Xbox overlay. You can turn it off entirely if you don't need it, but otherwise the global hotkey is an integral part of it, because it's the only way to invoke it.
Contrast that with Catalyst Control Center which was a regular windowed application that you usually opened when performing first-time setup and then never needed to fiddle with those settings again. And it had a global hotkey AND a context menu shell extension, which took a couple seconds to load every time you right-clicked the desktop. It was insane. Loosely quoting Raymond Chen - noone ever got promoted for _stopping_ a feature from shipping.
