Hairless Kitten II wrote:Shortcut commands on a keyboard are not designed for everyone.
If you use a specific piece of software once a year then it will be hard to remember the shortcut.
Shortcuts are nice for experienced users of a tool that use it often.
Are they faster then a move to the mouse + click?
Depends about the level of the typist. If he's good at the keyboard then he'll be faster. But many people hunt and peck for a key...
A part of the reason why Linux sucks at usability is the lack of usability engineers working in that OS.
Not really, there's plenty of usability engineers and guidelines working with Linux - it's just their hands are tied by the arguments presented above: they can't make a decent GUI because there's so much opposition to simplification.