keyboard accelerators

[Mike Haertel mike@cs.uoregon.edu]

>keyboard accelerators are indicative of a broken user interface.

Not everybody is coordinated enough to use a mouse efficiently.
My mother has difficulty, for example.  Even worse, some people
have genuine physical handicaps who *cannot* use a mouse, but who
can use some form of keyboard.  Or vice versa, for that matter.

Recently my mouse broke.  It was a weekend.  Under X, I was completely
paralyzed.  I rebooted my PC to Windows (blech!) and was able to get
some useful work done in a multi-window environment.  It was painful,
but better than the complete paralysis under X.

(Argh, mice are expensive.)

Supporting multiple styles of input strikes me as generally useful.
I don't think it necessarily implies software bloat.