Re: Remove "AccessX" from strings of Keyboard Accessibilty capplet

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Bill Haneman wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:49 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > ...
> > >
> > >   
> > >
> > > > Is now a good time to drop "AccessX" from the strings?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >     
> > >
> > > No please.  Also, old-time Windows users may remember this as 'Access 
> > > DOS'.
> > >
> > > The feature is still widely referred to in the accessibility 
> > > community as 'Access X', so I see a real downside in removing it, and 
> > > little benefit.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > In the version I have it only appears in the dialogue title for
> > accessibility, not in the menu item. So discoverability is already an
> > issue if it was that well known a word. Basically, that word sucks.
> >  
> I didn't name it, but that's its name (the feature/specification).  If 
> you google for it you'll find references.
>
> Having the string in the dialogue title is helpful because it lets the 
> user know that the feature they have just invoked "really is Access X", 
> in case they are looking for that feature or are familiar with it.  Most 
> of the target audience for the feature _will_ know "Access X" and will 
> be expecting it, if we remove it, I would anticipate "is this the same 
> as Access X?  Where is Access X?" sorts of questions.
Bill,

To summarize the target audience for that feature is:
1. old time windows users remembering Access DOS
2. people migrating from CDE

The percentage of people migrating from these platforms to GNOME 
compared to other platforms is I think is a 1 digit percentage, 
otherwise the total number of migrations to GNOME has to be really low.

Of these people maybe 5% would find it really helpful. So in total far 
less then 1% of the GNOME users would find it helpful. The other 99.x% 
would find it just confusing.

As we all do not seem to be able to convince you to remove it from the 
window, can I then at least ask you to remove it from the error dialogs?
Patch attached. They really should confuse users not familiar with accessx

Jaap



Index: accessibility-keyboard.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gnome-control-center/capplets/accessibility/keyboard/accessibility-keyboard.c,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 accessibility-keyboard.c
--- accessibility-keyboard.c	19 Feb 2004 17:07:00 -0000	1.24
+++ accessibility-keyboard.c	22 May 2005 17:51:41 -0000
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@
 		GtkWidget *warn = gtk_message_dialog_new (
 			gtk_window_get_transient_for (GTK_WINDOW (fchooser)),
 			GTK_DIALOG_MODAL, GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR, GTK_BUTTONS_OK,
-			_("Unable to import AccessX settings from file '%s'"),
+			_("Unable to import accessibility settings from file '%s'"),
 			file);
 		g_signal_connect (warn,
 			"response",
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@
 		GtkWidget *warn = gtk_message_dialog_new (
 			gtk_window_get_transient_for (GTK_WINDOW (fchooser)),
 			GTK_DIALOG_MODAL, GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR, GTK_BUTTONS_OK,
-			_("Unable to import AccessX settings from file '%s'"),
+			_("Unable to import accessibility settings from file '%s'"),
 			file);
 		g_signal_connect (warn,
 			"response",