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



Jaap Haitsma wrote:

...

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
I don't agree - AccessX is not in any way CDE specific.

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.
I don't think that this is true of the _target audience_, i.e. users of 
keyboard accessibility features.  A lot more of them will be familiar 
with the "Access X" term.
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?
Those dialogs, unlike the rest of the 'Access X' usage, really _are_ 
CDE-specific, and thus AccessX should remain there (since AccessX was 
the name of the feature which wrote the file being imported.
Bill

Patch attached. They really should confuse users not familiar with accessx
Jaap



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Index: accessibility-keyboard.c
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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",



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