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It seems to me that that role is pretty well served by icons in the regular UI that the user's already looking at.

• ramanujan 15y ago
  But those need to be clicked with the mouse. Having a top 10 list of extremely common hotkeys in an app is just a lot more discoverable (for the non-expert or first-time user) and much faster (for all users) than finding the right icon to click.
  • DanBealeC 15y ago
    You don't remember all the cardboard keyboard overlays that used to ship with software?
  • glhaynes 15y ago
    But also comes with a cost and complexity including users having to sometimes look onscreen for functions and sometimes on the keyboard.
• tomkarlo 15y ago
  Apple's done this with great success in their re-use of the f-keys as system control buttons (as have other manufacturers.) I'm not sure most Mac users are even aware those are f-keys any more.