Re: Shortcuts (was: Accelerator and terminology guides?)

[Michael Rogers <banthafodder connectfree co uk>]

Andrea Mankoski wrote:
> So what do we expect our future user population to look like?

Let's not forget KDE users. Gnome's user population may not currently
contain many Windows users, but I bet it contains a lot of KDE users (at
least on Linux - I'm sure it's a different story on Solaris).

Apart from accidentally typing Ctrl-S in a terminal or Ctrl-W outside of
a terminal, is there any reason to avoid Windows/KDE-style keybindings?
Because I don't see those two accidents as a good enough reason to break
compatibility. You can always nuke something if you type in the wrong
window; different keybindings won't fix that. If we use Alt instead of
Ctrl there will still be clashes with programs like Emacs, plus we will
be incompatible with Windows and KDE.

Michael