This is one of the biggest obstacles to overcome somehow. What needs to
be done is a standards committee ought to get together and tell the
developers "this is what needs to be done to make your application meet
this standard", and then distros like you guys would give them favorable
status over the non standard ones I guess. Hell... we are so much
farther down the road than we were just 1 year ago though, it is
amazing. I'm not complaining, just thinking out loud. After all... you
asked for it. <G>
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> Lorne Shantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Sorry..I should have made the clearer.
> >
> > Yes I'm thinking it is probably related more to the apps than the
> > windows itself. For instance.. if I use the "windows" icon key it will
> > bring up the menu... then I went to the control panel. I wanted to
> > modify the mouse settings, but there needs to be a hot key under say the
> > F for File, and then a hot key for each command under that, so you could
> > get around and make commands. A few apps allow it but not very many. For
> > instance, I'm using the netscape email program. There is File with the
> > F hot keyed, Edit with the E, View with the V, Tools with the T, etc.
>
> yep. we're all dreaming of the perfect apps world for Linux!.
> unfortunately, apps are very heterogeneous. most of the time, there are
> hotkeys, often undocumented..
>
> i don't really know how we could solve this problem; we cannot tell the
> people to respect KDE or Gnome or anything else hotkeys conventions.. we
> can encourage people to add hotkeys, but you know, even in opensource
> software, putting your hands on a program just to add hotkeys, and then
> leave the development team, is not a so good idea..
>
> --
> Guillaume Cottenceau
