Re: detailed review of GOK

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

david bolter utoronto ca wrote:
> It makes sense to me too, but we don't count Bill ;-)  We're too deep inside.
>   
Well, exactly. Now that I've had it explained, I see it too, but I was 
wearing my no nonsense user advocate hat when writing that. I'm not 
trying to be unreasonably controversial, just question certain elements 
of the design. Of course a bit of controversy does get you on OSnews: 
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12942 :) Which IMO can only be 
good for our niche sector. I'll be having a go a Dasher next :)

The Sticky Keys is probably the least problematic of those dialogues, 
the main problem really was that you got 3 in a row which just makes it 
seem broken. Perhaps it could all be combined into a single information 
window (that would change depending on what was being displayed, 
obviously). I also agree that when Sticky Keys gets enabled the user 
should be notified.

I've just spoken with Colin Watson, our Installer, Live CD and 
UbuntuExpress guy, and we are looking at the possibility of having a 
boot option where you start the OS with AT support enabled by default. 
That should take care of some more of these issues.
> I confirm the problems faced with using the system core pointer. Overcoming the
> problems has caused a great deal of developer pain. Henrik, if you and ubuntu
> could help improve the gok feedback (dialog) -- to make it less confusing that
> would be very welcome. 
>   
Sure, I'll do some initial sketching of ideas and then pass it around 
for feedback.

btw, is there any documentation on how to write custom keyboard layouts. 
That's also something I'd like to have a look at doing.

- Henrik