On Thursday 29 March 2007 17:40:52 Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> On Thursday, 29. March 2007, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> > We need to have consistent shortcut schemes if we want anyone to remember
> > them. And there must be no exceptions for anything except the most
> > standard, most common shortcuts. Applications must not fuddle around with
> > Alt-*. Just finding free shortcuts doesn't cut it, we need a vision.
>
> ...and I wanted to restate that the most important outcome of this will be
> a document where app developers can look up which shortcut ranges are still
> free for them. The most severe annoyances come from applications that don't
> respect the (currently unwritten, but essentially already there) rules for
> assigning shortcuts.
>
> If we can say "Your app uses a shortcut outside the defined ranges", such
> cases can be fixed, and everyone wins. Except for the "compatibility"
> people, but those are really, really supposed to have their own shortcut
> schemes, and not using HIG-violating ones by default.

This is a Very Good Idea.
I personally don't make full use of shortcuts because they are too chaotic and 
hard to remember. A clear scheme would help me very much.