Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Owen Thomas]

On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 23:37, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> This isn't the standard keystroke (Alt+F4 or Ctrl+W) -- you're using
> the window control menu. XFCE respects that and its keystrokes more
> than GNOME or KDE.
>

Behold a rant!

If I was the standard setting authority for the keystroke that closed a
window, I would set it to Alt-Space-C. It's a quick left-handed gesture,
and whoever decides what these standards will be (or whoever programs the
desktop to respond to keyboard input) should not complicate my life by
interfering with a common sense gesture like this.

If one is using a Dell, then Alt-F4 requires the left hand to press the Alt
and Fn keys. This means that the right hand has to come over and press the
F4 key. Ctrl-W is an application specific gesture that is usually used to
close either a whole application window or perhaps only a component in an
application's window.

I would like to be able to add Alt-Space-C as a shortcut, but it appears
this cannot be done because it uses a combination of two character keys as
well as a keyboard control key. Not happy at all! I would think that so
long as the keyboard shortcut contains at least one keyboard control key,
it shouldn't matter how many other keys are desired.

And, I humbly request the following: can 22.04 please allow me to use the
facility built into the hardware to disable my mousepad with a shortcut key
while I use my keyboard! Having used a Dell for more than a decade, I feel
that this feature has been neglected for too long not to have had someone
associated with Ubuntu to a deeper level than myself do something about it.
I am forever trying to undo whatever happens when my fingers or palm make
accidental contact with a mousepad that I cannot disable. This frustrates
too!

  Owen.
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