Steve Frécinaux wrote: > I don't see why there should be any coherence with Windows. If so, why > not being coherent with MacOS X, or CDE, or whatever else ? We need > good and rationale defaults, and sticking to what someone else just > because they do so is not a good attitude. > > Alt+F1 is fine by me and there is no reason to change it to > Ctrl+Escape, since it will confuse our current users. I can see we disagree. That is ok of course ;-)
But it would be good to know your reasoning. Who do you believe is the winner in long and short term with your way of thinking? How do you see the future? How do you see the future if my suggestions were used instead? > >>> But appart from that, nothing is keeping you from defining your own >>> keybindings as you like them ;-) >> Thanks, that have been my impression all the time. However I want the >> default to be as easy as possible for new GNOME users coming from MS >> Windows. Is not that a desireable goal? > > No. The defaults are to be the easiest possible for actual users of > Gnome, not Windows'. I feel quite surprised. How many Gnome users are there today? How many Windows users (that could become Gnome users)? > And it's still up to the distros to make their own choices if they > feel like it's better for their users. Thanks. I did not know that. So I should rather talk to the Ubuntu team then perhaps? _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
