bulia byak asserì:
'+' is a shift-key for a minority of our users.
Do you have any statistics to back this up?
Whereas I so have some statistics in my favor. On a default install of Mandrake 9.2, grep /etc/X11/xkb/symbols for layouts containing "[ equal, plus" and those containing "[ plus". You will find 61 layouts where plus is in the shifted position and 52 of those where it's non-shifted. So the majority of layouts seems to be on my side, probably that speaks something about the majority of users too.
Ehm...
In my layout (it_IT) only the '=' is done pressing the shift key, while '-' and '+' are directly present on the keyboard. :)
However, I agree with your proposal to keep both '+' and '=' to zoom in (especially because '+' is more mnemonic to zoom in).