#1721 NORM Trial-2: Standardize keyboard shortcuts

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#1721: Standardize keyboard shortcuts
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  Reporter:  bert              |       Owner:  Eben    
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  assigned
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Trial-2 
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:          
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment (by gnu):

 Using CTRL, and the standard X, C, V keys is a great thing.  Mozilla made
 that change some years ago and improved its cross-platform compatability
 significantly.  Use CTRL-W for close-window and CTRL-Q for quit while
 you're at it (when there's no dialog box up, they'd probably do the same
 thing in a Sugar, uh, "activity").

 Please, not the obscure Apple graphics about the modifier keys!  Whenever
 I use a Mac, I can never figure out the shortcuts, because I can never
 remember which bizarre symbol goes with which key.  And there's no easy
 way to "read them out loud" either, e.g. "Just press two strange lines and
 then the C key".  These even appear to the right in the top-of-screen
 menus, making THOSE unreadable and unpronounceable.

 What is wrong with CTRL, SHIFT, ALT GR, and FN as both the preprinted
 names on the keys, and the way that documentation, text, menus, control
 panels refer to these keys?  There are already too many odd keys like the
 "grab" keys with a hand on them; the "Eye/mouth" key, the "gear" key, and
 the ESC key that mysteriously contains an X (we already have an X key,
 too).

 So, don't change the keyboard.  It's time to buckle down and ship this
 product, not keep endlessly changing it for no particularly good reason.

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