How to disable all "keyboard shortcuts"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2022-08-13 at 15:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> How can I disable all "keyboard shortcuts"

Hi,

I agree that there are way to many shortcuts, that are often the cause
for accidents. Depending on the focus a single key might accidentally
send an email or delete an item on a drive or just switch to full screen
or hide the menu bar, while the user doesn't know how to escape from
full screen or get back the menu bar. I'm mostly buffled about the
shortcuts of drawing apps. When using a pencil to draw on a tablet it's
absurd to have a bulky keyboard on the desk or to balance the pencil in
one hand, while pushing a shortcut with both hands. Did nobody notice
that using the pencil to click a menu is way more comfortable and there
are still gestures (an advantage, but also another problem).

While there are different opinions about fundamental forms or words,
active and passive vocabulary, the following i found by some Internet
research seems to be still imperfect, but a quite acceptable summary.
This at least is my wild guessing.

  250 words form the inner core of a language
  750 words make up the daily language
 2500 words enable humans to express anything they want to say
 5000 words corresponds to the active vocabulary of an uneducated native speaker, less words are used by the yellow press
10000 words make up the active vocabulary of a native speaker with a higher education
20000 words is the passive vocabulary needed to read and fully understand books by respected authors

How many default shortcuts do have readline + vim or emacs + a few
averaged desktop applications like a MUA, an office suite, a browser
etc.?

Remembering all those shortcuts does likely crop the passive vocabulary
which might be way more than 100000 words, but likely some of the needed
20000 words gets lost, too ;).

Even knowing all the shortcuts, doesn't protect against annoying
accidents. IMO the amount of shortcuts is way to high and shouldn't
become part of our vocabulary. We should not start speaking computer
language, the computer should start understanding human language. Not in
the Siri or Alexa way, but in kinds of user interfaces, like e.g. a
drawing app user interface that provides intuitive usage of the pencil
as input device for "commands" (selecting options etc.).

My 2 Cents,
Ralf