Re: Undesired slow-keys popup

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Jazz

Disabling this popup is in my opinion is not a good idea (at least as a 
default), because its purpose is:

1) to allow the user to easily revert the action;
2) to prevent more 'my keyboard is broken ' bug reports.

Disabling the keyboard shortcuts would prevent users who need this 
feature from using it.

Jazz Daq wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I use the keyboard accessibility features, in
> particular, Mouse Keys.  However, there is an
> accessibility feature that I find particularly
> annoying:
>
> If accessibility and Mouse Keys are enabled, and you
> hold down the shift key for more than 8 seconds, a
> popup appears, requesting:
>
>   "Would you like to activate Slow Keys?"
>
> When using certain applications, it is quite common to
> hold the shift key or another key down for 8 seconds
> during normal work, for multiple graphical item
> selection, for example.  The unwanted appearance of
> the Slow Keys dialog is quite annoying.  In addition
> to its annoying presence, it causes the keyboard to
> stop working in all applications until you press
> Cancel.
>  
It does not, of course, cause the keyboard to "stop working" - this 
impression is the primary reason that the we post the popup (to let the 
user know that their keyboard is not 'broken', but that keystrokes 
require a long acceptance time).

> I would recommend disabling this automatic popup, or
> allowing the user to selectively disable it.  I think
> the former solution is better, because if a user is
> able to turn on keyboard accessibility he/she can also
> turn on Slow Keys manually.
>  
This is not necessarily true.  On most distros, keyboard accessibility 
it on by default (i.e. the SlowKeys and StickKeys shortcuts are 
available by default).  The purpose of this is so that users who need 
these features can access them without, as you say, "turning on Slow 
Keys manually."

The ability to suppress the warning dialog (only) may be useful for 
users who already "know" what is happenning and don't need the 
reminder.  I think that the real problem here is that the 'enable 
keyboard accessibility features' button in the Keyboard Accessibility 
Dialog is a mis-feature; it should turn on and off the keyboard 
shortcuts, but not keyboard accessibility features as a whole.  This is 
the subject of bug 131339.

regards

Bill

> Thanks for considering this request.  Best regards,
>
> Dave.
>
>
>
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