Re: accessx-applet 0.7.0

[Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101 psu edu>]

Hi Bill. Yes, it's okay with me to add this to gnome-applets since it
adds an important capability to the desktop. You can send me the patch
or go ahead and commit yourself if you feel like it.

Regards,
Kevin 

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 13:07, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hi Kevin:
> 
> I've got a version of this applet that I'm relatively happy with, only
> one FIXME and one TODO.
> 
> It's currently standalone but I'd prefer to put it in gnome-applets,
> since it's small, and provides major benefit to an existing desktop
> feature.  The rationale:
> 
> * keyboard accessibility features introduce new statefulness into the
> keyboard which isn't visible via LEDs or other indicators; for instance,
> individual modifier keys may be latched or locked (without CAPSLOCK for
> instance), the "default" mouse button used by MouseKeys may change, and
> in general keyboard accessibility features may be on without any other
> visible change to the keyboard.
> 
> * this applet shows the user not only which keyboard accessibility
> features are in use, but also shows the "state" information for
> currently enabled features.
> 
> * the applet has short menu (Launch Preference Dialog, Help, About) from
> which the keyboard accessibility capplet can be launched quickly.
> 
> With your permission I'd like to convert this into a patch for
> gnome-applets, for inclusion before feature freeze (i.e. in the next 14
> days).
> 
> thanks
> 
> Bill