Re: [Usability] Standard application shortcut keys

[David Christian Berg <david sipsolutions net>]

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 02:15 +0100, Emilian Nowak wrote:
> Hello,
> I have some suggestins about HIG:
> in Chapter 10. "User Input" there is
> "Table 10.6. Standard GNOME application shortcut keys and access keys - Edit
> menu" I have some "complains" about cut, paste, insert shortcuts:
> 
> I think that more "handy" for copying is ctrl+insert, shift+insert for
> paste, and ctrl+del for cut. Those shortcuts are well know to working
> everywhere on Microsfot Windows, and  they were also commonly used in old
> Borland text IDE's for MS-DOS. So they are not just handy, but also very
> popular. 

Huh? I've never used these shortcuts, nor knew about them. Also I don't
see, how you can use them with one hand only, esp with the left hand
being the preferred shortcut hand for right handed people like me :)

David