merging keyboard & keyboard shortcuts

["Jared Moore" <cornflake pirate gmail com>]

Hi,

I've uploaded a preliminary patch [1] to move keyboard shortcuts to a
tab in the keyboard capplet.

After a brief perusal I've found some previous discussion that took
place last cycle [2] where this issue was mentioned. However, this
time there's some code :)

My opinion is that it doesn't make much sense and is inconsistent for
the keyboard capplet to have 5 tabs of preferences, and then a
completely separate capplet for keyboard shortcuts. There also seems
to have been a trend over the previous cycle for consolidation of
capplets, e.g. keyboard & mouse a11y options being merged into the
main keyboard & mouse capplets.

Regarding previous discussion of a hypothetical future mouse shortcut
capplet, my gut insticnt is that users would look in
Preferences->Mouse, not Preferences->Shortcuts. Well that's certainly
where I would look anyway :)

Additionally, consolidating capplets is the 4th most popular idea on
Ubuntu brainstorm [3]. Although of course that's not necessarily a
good indicator of what's the best software engineering decision. :)

Cheers,
Jared

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78102
[2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2007-November/msg00000.html
[3] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/most_popular_ever/