Re: [Usability]"Keyboard Shortcuts"

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

> Hi,
> Was looking at the "Desktop Preferences" menu for a few
> seconds and wondering .. Shouldn't "Keyboard Shortcuts" be
> called just "Shortcuts". "Keyboard" and "Keyboard Shortcuts"
> looks a bit confusing.
> 
> Just a thought,
> Vinay Pawar,
> Pune, India.
> 

It depends on exactly what the Keyboard Shortcut preferences tool does. You need 
to consider the definitions of keyboard shortcut vs shortcut that the 
documentation people are using. Currently the Sun documentation team is 
developing the following the following definitions: 

Shortcut:
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An action or a sequence of actions that is performed by a combination of one or 
more keystrokes or mouse clicks. A shortcut provides a quicker and more 
convenient way to perform an action than the conventional way to perform the 
same action. 

Keyboard Shortcut: 
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A key or combination of keys that provides an alternative to standard ways of 
performing an action. In the GNOME desktop, there are the following types of 
keyboard shortcuts: 
		- access keys (keyboard vs mouse)
		- hot keys (keyboard vs command line)
		- shortcut keys (keyboard vs UI)

We will be proposing these definitions to the documentation community in the 
next terminology update. Ideally, terminology usage in the UI should be the same 
as in the documentation. If we accept the above definitions, then we should name 
the preferences tool in question accordingly. 

Pat