Samuel Sieb writes:
On 1/10/22 15:50, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Oh, and how would a user discover what those useful keyboard shortcuts are?
>
> At this point, the basic UI elements are instinctively known to everyone.
> Everyone knows what an icon does, how menus look like, etc…
>
> Does a majority people really know, instinctively, what keyboard shortcuts
> to use in Gnome?
>
> I am a big fan of keyboard shortcuts. I spend a lot of time in emacs.
>
> However, strangely, during my brief exposure to the latest, default Gnome
> desktop in Ubuntu I had no idea, whatsoever, that there were keyboard
> shortcuts available to me. How could I know that?
The same way you find instructions for any system or application. Look in
the manual. There's a pretty decent help application for Gnome and for a
new user, there's a brief introductory app that starts the first time they
login.
Fair enough.
But it was easier for me to use XFCE right off the bat, it wasn't necessary
to find its documentation and read XFCE's manual. I don't think there is
one, actually.
Someone who's already used traditional desktop environments, with
desktop shortcut icons, a taskbar (on top or the bottom), with something
that looks like a "Start" menu, a tray, a pager, and a few other familiar UI
icons – someone like that should be able to hit the ground running with
XFCE.