Keep expectations high and the community will self-correct.
In mac os x, - how to show the desktop with a keyboard shortcut ?
- how to maximize/minimize/restore a window with a keyboard shortcut (on windows you can press Alt+spacebar, and then x/n/r) ?
- how to efficiently copy/move files in finder with a keyboard shortcut ?
- how is better thought the fact that when you are in finder and then you press enter, you are going to rename a file? because in order to open/execute on a file you must press command+O...
And finally, the operation you asked can be performed on windows by pressing ctrl+shift+esc, and if you are in the process tab, spelling the first letters of the procname, then press delete and confirm.
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"- how to maximize/minimize/restore a window with a keyboard shortcut (on windows you can press Alt+spacebar, and then x/n/r) ?"
There is no such thing as maximize in OS X. Minimize is command + m. I'm not sure how to restore with the keyboard.
"- how to efficiently copy/move files in finder with a keyboard shortcut ?"
Command + c is copy and command + v is paste. Command + x is cut, but there are rules governing when one can cut that I don't understand.
You should be careful of "windows bias" (or whatever, I just made up the term). Just because we do something one way in windows, does not mean its better, just what we are accustomed to.
-- Selecting an arbitrary menu item Arrowing through a menu is key for me. I'm writing from memory but last I recall working on a mac, the menus were strictly mouse only.
-- What's the equivalent of the start button, giving a list of available I can select with the keyboard? I remember not being able to navigate the launch bar with the keyboard, only the mouse. And at that time, I Googled for a while for help on this.
alt-tab == ⌘-tab
Restore == Ctl-F3, arrow key to window in Dock, return
Arbitrary menu item, depends:
Application Menu (left-handside text menus) == Ctl-F2, type enough unique letters to identify the menu (or use arrow keys), return, type enough unique letters to identify the item... repeat till you get to the item you want. If this annoys you, you can implement your own keyboard shortcuts in any native application.
Status Menu (right-handside icon menus) == Ctl-F8, arrows, return.
Equivalent of the start button? Not quite sure what you mean - activate Spotlight ⌘-[Space], type app name perhaps?
I assume you mean Dock when you say launch which is activated by Ctl-F3.
The only one I don't know how to do is fine-grain resizing of a window. If you use OS X though, you'll realise the UI paradigm isn't focused on fine-grained window control though.
Plus I actually suspect that a many application don't implement the keys you've mentioned since I was definitely at-sea in my efforts to use any keys.
But thanks, I'll have more ammunition the next time I'm stuck Osx-land.
Don't take this the wrong way, but Windows skills don't translate to other platforms. OS X will feel different, weird and limited if you're not familiar with it as it doesn't do things the way you're used to.
To be honest, I rarely use most of these shortcut keys because I define my own.
A basic example is that it's two keys to start a VPN session on my machine as that's something I do frequently.
A more complicated one is as at the moment I'm doing work on a site that includes screenshots of itself, I have a shortcut key defined that takes a series of screen grabs from different pages in Safari at the appropriate size, converts them to PNG and sticks them in the appropriate folder. Huge time saver.
In short, it seems to me OS X can do anything with a keyboard shortcut that you'd like it to.
And there's always alt-f4.
As this can all be done with one hand, does XP therefore have better thought-out keyboard shortcuts than OSX? ;)
Other than the arrowing down bit, it's about the same.