Re: the keyboard accessibility capplet

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 00:17, earl johnson wrote:

>       So "enable keyboard
> 	accessibility" was added to let the user who didn't need
> 	AccessX features prevent the system from turning on a feature
> 	inadvertantly from the keyboard (e.g. it prevents 5 taps on the
> 	Shift key from invoking StickyKeys).

Oh yeah... I never thought of that!

> 	Window's added an additional feature along these lines that
> 	AccessX never had - it posts a popup the first time any feature
> 	is invoked from the keyboard and asks the user then if they
> 	want to fully disable keyboard accessibility. This would be a
> 	good thing to see added to the GNOME desktop.

Indeed, that popup has saved me a few times when I've been banging
random keys to try and make XP speed up a bit :)

Cheeri,
Calum.
 
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