> Better than to have hotkeys for the menus, every action can have user-selected
> hotkeys (just hold the mouse over the action and press the hotkey). If every
> ALT-something combination etc. was used, the program would be a lot crummier.
> An example: I have set the my most commonly used tools to letters on the left
> side of my computer.

These are different things I am talking about here.  There is nothing wrong
with menu "shortcuts".  However, too many of them limit usability (do you
really remember that Ctrl-Alt-Y is for <insert tool here>?  The point in
question are the accessibility hotkeys, assigned to *each* menu item.  Read
the post about _F_ile, etc above for an example, and the post about Excel/
Gnumeric.

Another thing that GTK certainly does not have, is the same kind of access
keys for dialog *controls*.  Under the other operating system, you can always
press some alt-key combination to get to an item in a dialog box, because 
usually it's prefixed with some sort of hotkey:

_W_idth: [entry field]

So that you can press alt-w and your cursor will be in that entry field.  On
a similar GTK app, you would either have to tab (imagine if that control is
like 10 on the tab order list), or use the mouse.  For some people neither is
acceptable.