All Unix flavours are considered to be originated in a terminal environment and most users are proficient using keyboard and personally, it would be quick to use keyboard than mouse. Only the newbiew to computers find the mouse a fancy thing. The need is to do the job quickly and efficiently. I saw the lack of shortcut keys in other distributons as well. I can't even configure a mouse in mandrake 8.2 from the administrative panel as there are no shortcuts(May be i don't know how to configure a mouse from a terminal window). But its actually irritating and if Linux(Any distro) has to get wide acceptance, rather than providing many other heavy stuff, it should provide the basic functionalities.