"It wouldn't be "pretty awesome". It would be almost entirely unusable." Compared to the paragon of usability that photoshop represents today? On its own, chor

"It wouldn't be "pretty awesome". It would be almost entirely unusable." Compared to the paragon of usability that photoshop represents today? On its own, chords would hurt discoverability. But as I wrote originally, discoverability can be restored using another of raskin's ideas, a dynamic style of command line demonstrated by his son Aza in the Ubiquity and Enso projects, and also present in the Sublime Text 2 text editor (called the command palette there)-- In essence, if your program has thousands of features, then make them invokable from an efficient specialised search engine. If we are using chords, make the available chords discoverable and visible in the UI. You can entirely avoid modes AND have an efficient and powerful interface for experts to use day in and day out. They are not opposing forces.