RE: Running vs starting apps

[David Grega <webmaster overtech zzn com>]

I think Dick is onto something here.  Many novices always complain why 
keyboard shortcuts sometimes vary between programs.  I think we should have 
standardized shortcuts throughout the OS while allowing specific programs 
to have certain shortcuts.  Also, there should be a posted list of 
"standard" keyboard shortcuts for Gnome programs.  For example, we couldn't 
program something like semi-standard F5 keyboard shortcut for windows into 
the GUI since different sets of code would always be used to 
Run/Export/Compile a program/presentation.

- Dave

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From:  Dick Karpinski
Sent:  Saturday, November 25, 2000 11:33 AM
To:  gnome-gui-list gnome org; jdub aphid net
Subject:  Re: Running vs starting apps

Consider the desktop. None of your work gets done on the desktop. Thus
the true efficiency of the desktop is zero.

Then consider the apps. Every time you start one, it hides all the
commands you've been using and supplies a whole new set. If you are
lucky, some of the more popular commands may have similar command
gestures and even similar semantics. Still, it is virtually assured
that your fingers will make mode errors. You will type something that
makes sense in some other app, not this new one.

It would be possible to eliminate the desktop and the separate apps,
but it would require thinking outside the window, as it were.

Dick

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