Re: ANNOUNCE: lock-keys-applet 1.0 "Bowling for Columbine"

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:11, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 10:38, Joergen Scheibengruber wrote:
> 
> > I just had a look at the sticky keys applet, and I think it should be no
> > problem to merge stick keys into lock-keys... 
> > 
> > I would just add some icons to the applet for strg, alt, shift (and
> > windows key if needed). These icons should probably only be visible if
> > accessibility is turned on.
> 
> This would be great.  Just to clarify, do you mean "when accessibility
> is turned on" or "when keyboard accessibility is turned on"?  They're
> currently two different things, which is slightly confusing, but I guess
> you meant the latter.

I think that the icons should be on in all cases; at least, if the
application indicates keyboard shift status I think it should do so all
the time, and I think it's useful in all cases.  It's info that the user
doesn't usually get, but I still think it's useful.  If there's any
question about the utility of the 'control/alt/etc' modifier indicators,
then I'd suggest making that a property/preference of the applet.

- Bill

> BTW, did you notice if the sticky keys applet only works with the
> Windows key, or does it work with whatever your Meta key is?  If it's
> hard-coded to the Windows key I guess we'll need to fix that at some
> point, my Sun keyboard doesn't have one :)
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
-- 
Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>