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

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

(Apologies for delay in replying, been out of the office for a month...)

On 30 Aug 2006, at 18:24, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> The support for multiple shortcuts-per-definition sounds to me like  
> an excellent idea.
>
> But it looks also to meeg that the best thing to do might be to  
> take up the keyboard theming idea. However I do not know enough  
> about it to really argue for it.
>
> Is there an overview over the differences between Gnome and MS  
> Windows keyboard usage?

I might still have the comparison spreadsheet lying around that we  
put together two or three years ago, I'll see if I can dig that out--  
can't remember if it covers this level of detail though.  (There's  
also an old comparison chart on the GNOME accessibility website, but  
that's definitely just dealing with widget-level keynav.)

Failing that, if you have some time on your hands, the Windows UI  
styleguide has a decent keyboard shortcut list:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ 
dnwue/html/appxb.asp

which you could compare and contrast with the keynav chapter in the  
GNOME Accessibility Guide:
http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/latest/keynav-1.html

Cheeri,
Calum.

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