Lennart Borgman wrote:
Sven Herzberg wrote:Thanks Sven. I have later got that information but it was not there when I needed it.On So, 2006-08-20 at 16:00 +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:I tried Control-Esc and the Windows keys to access the start menu, but none of them worked. I would really appreciate if they do. Is there any reason that they should not work the same way as on MS Windows? Would not that attract MS Windows users?Try Alt-F1. Alt is the modifier we often use for global keybindings. Maybe there's more explanations given in the Gnome HIG.What I am looking for is the answer to the questions above. What are the opinion here about those questions? Why not try to welcome MS Windows users in this area?
Alt+Escape is already used for something else. IMHO, Ctrl+Escape wouldn't make sense wrt the current way we define shortcuts. And you are likely to run into http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165343 if you try to use the super (windows) key (and it's rather annoying to have the menu popping everytime just because you hit the super key by accident)
But appart from that, nothing is keeping you from defining your own keybindings as you like them ;-)