Re: [Usability] Using Control-Esc and Windows keys to access the start menu

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Calum Benson wrote:

> There's also a recent patch that will let you define multiple
> keybindings for the same function, so that distros who are so inclined
> can set both Alt+F1 and Ctrl-Esc to pop up the menu and keep everyone
> happy.
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164831

Excellent, good to know we have the underlying infrastructure to do
this cleanly but why leave it to the distributions?
(I need to figure out where exactly to patch but ...)

The windows keybindings are fairly well known and I do not think
there would be much/any harm having the enabled by default, or at least
provide some way to enable this set of keybindings rather than expect
every user to configure each of them individually.

Here's a list of the keybindings (and I refer to the Windows key the more
generic "Super" key)

Super  		to open up the main menu*, also
Ctrl+Esc
Super+E 	to open the File Manager
Super+M 	to Minimize All, Show Desktop
Super+M+Shift 	to Maximize All
Super+F 	Search/Find tool

I think there may have been additional keybindings added in
since Windows XP.
Super+U 	Utilities manager, a program to turn on accessibility
software like the
Mangifier, Narrator (text to speech) or on screen keyboard.

Super+L 	to Lock Workstation
(I'm finding it mildly annoying since I have hit this accidentally a
couple of times.  It is still nowhere near as annoying as the stupid
keybinding to switch keyboard layouts since it took me years to
discover what was causing that bit of evil.)


* Not actually the main menu but the Applications menu, you know what I
mean.


Do we/I need to file another bug to track this or is there a suitable
existing report which covers it?

-- 
Alan