Comment 17 for bug 934062

I'm glad to see that the problem with the shortcuts hint display seems to have been fixed with the latest update, however I have to say that I'm really disappointed with the current state of the keyboard shortcuts in Precise.

We now have an inconsistent and non-intuitive set of shortcuts: The keypad shortcuts, <ctrl><alt>kp1, kp2, kp3, kp5, kp7, kp8, kp9, provide useful window positioning to corresponding parts of the screen and allow cycling through 1/2, 1/3, 1/4... window sizing - this is good. However, <ctrl><alt>kp4, kp6 no longer do anything! Instead, we have the key combinations <ctrl><super>left and <ctrl><super>right (what happened to <super>left and <super>right?) to provide the left and right half screen window positioning without the ability to cycle through the other size options. I know it's possible to reassign the shortcuts using CCSM, but this would make them inconsistent with the shortcuts hint display and there is no way to reinstate the cycling behaviour.

Why can't we have the original functionality of keypad keys 4 and 6, complete with the cycling behaviour, as well as the <super>left and <super>right functionality for those with simpler requirements and for machines with no numpad? Would it really matter if there were two ways of achieving similar results?

We all want 12.04 to be a polished, reliable and professional operating system. The current state of these shortcuts is at odds with this objective.