You know the standard across most editors is to use ctrl+shift+z, right? Have you never used a text editor? A game engine? An input field on a website?
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standard!! i apologize!!
this is a joke, right?
a default keyboard combination does not have such a meaning. they don't want to "dress as proprietary software". probably the creators were used to using that other combination, or they decided that it could be worth to keep the keyboard mapping similar to a very popular graphics editing software, irregardless of whether it is proprietary or open source.
don't worry! the freedom is yours to rebind that button to whatever you want.
Thanks for the fun read! You made my day.
And in a lifetime on linux I never noticed the Ctrl+y stuff.
they want to appeal to proprietary companies
Wtf does that even mean? (Maybe English is not your native langage and you meant something else tho?)
I think the ctrl-y vs cmd-shift-z was a Windows vs Mac thing. A lot of commercial gui software originated on Mac including Photoshop (and much of Microsoft Office) and Mac remains popular with the creative crowd. Older Linux gui software used to be weird, either cde/motif stuff or things that looked like they were developed on an Amiga. Keyboard standardization was never a thing with linux - eg emacs and vi.
I believe ctrl-shift-z is standard across many Gnome and KDE apps now. All the ones I could quickly test anyway. Inkscape and Gimp kind of do their own thing but Inkscape definately has ctrl-shift-z showing as the primary redo shortcut for me although it seems to support control y as well. So I think Gimp is just weird as usual. The UI doesn't conform to the expectations of contemporary Linux users let alone people from other platforms. I would probably just assume Gimp was broken, close it and open Krita instead.