I'm glad to see that the problem with the shortcuts hint display seems
to have been fixed with the latest update, however I have to say that
I'm really disappointed with the current state of the keyboard shortcuts
in Precise.

We now have an inconsistent and non-intuitive set of shortcuts: The
keypad shortcuts, <ctrl><alt>kp1, kp2, kp3, kp5, kp7, kp8, kp9, provide
useful window positioning to  corresponding parts of the screen and
allow cycling through 1/2, 1/3, 1/4... window sizing - this is good.
However, <ctrl><alt>kp4, kp6 no longer do anything!  Instead, we have
the key combinations <ctrl><super>left and <ctrl><super>right (what
happened to <super>left and <super>right?) to provide the left and right
half screen window positioning without the ability to cycle through the
other size options.  I know it's possible to reassign the shortcuts
using CCSM, but this would make them inconsistent with the shortcuts
hint display and there is no way to reinstate the cycling behaviour.

Why  can't we have the original functionality of keypad keys 4 and 6,
complete with the cycling behaviour, as well as the <super>left and
<super>right functionality for those with simpler requirements and for
machines with no numpad?  Would it really matter if there were two ways
of achieving similar results?

We all want 12.04 to be a polished, reliable and professional operating
system.  The current state of these shortcuts is at odds with this
objective.

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