7.3 used Sawfish as the Gnome Window manager I believe. RedHat 8.0 used a new window manager called metacity in the Gnome side. You can set limited number of keyboard shortcuts (even to CTRL+ALT+DEL if you want) by clicking "Preferences">"Keyboard Shortcuts". Now there doesn't appear to be a way to add more commands from that shortcut tool. I've also browsed around "gconf-editor" and found where you can add shortcut commands but I haven't actually gotten it to work. KDE should still work fine and you should be able to configure the keyboard shortcuts as you always have. I find the Gnome side to have far fewer features than KDE but I sort of like the simplicity of it.
"ALT+F2+xkill" always works for killing an app with your mouse. I don't know about koncd as I don't use it and I actually don't use Xcdroast either. I've always preferred to burn CDs (and most everything else) from the command line. You might also try the "eject" command which should unmount and eject your CD in one swoop.
You can change your default browser by clicking "Extras">"Preferences">"Preferred Applications".
Hope this helps. For what it's worth I was extremely dissatisfied with RedHat 8.0 when I first started using it. But within a couple of weeks I have learned to like it more than any other version of RedHat and more than any other distro period.
[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]