Re: Why the control keys?

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:14:41 -0800, Nathan Clegg <nathan@islanddata.com> wrote:
>I understand the need for standardized shortcut keys across applications and
>how Gnome can make that happen.  Why, though, does it abandon the long-lived
>unix standard of meta or alt in preference of control, to emulate the use of
>Windows machines?

Why not?

You'd have to give a lot of examples to support your assertion that the
UNIX standard is Alt/Meta.

-- Elliot
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