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

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

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
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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",
>