Re: [Usability] Shift-Del, Shift-Ins

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

P G wrote:

> Shift-Del and -Ins are standard Windoze key sequences for Cut and Paste.

They're usually implemented, but they're not 'standard'-- the Windows
standards are Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V.

To quote from the Windows (98 and 2000) styleguide:

"The system supports shortcut assignments available in earlier versions
of Microsoft Windows (Alt+Backspace, Shift+Insert, Ctrl+Insert,
Shift+Delete).  You should consider supporting them (though not
documenting them) to support the transition of users."

Given that they've been deprecated in Windows in this way since Win98, I
don't personally see a lot of point of going to the trouble of making
them a GNOME standard.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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