Re: Compiz + A11y Discussion

[Bryen <suserocks bryen com>]

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:57 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> For Orca users, the two main bugs are the Alt+Tab problem that causes 
> Orca to  be somewhat silent 
> (http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027) and Ctrl+Alt
> +Tab 
> not working 
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/228343).  The 
> issue with Ctrl+Alt+Tab seems to be that Compiz is using it for 
> something else: http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/CommonKeyboardShortcuts.
> 

I would definitely agree that Compiz's hotkey combinations get somewhat
confusing and there's no ready tool to list all the combinations that
are currently active, nor a notification that the combination is already
in use elsewhere.

Assuming that there is a scenario in which the default Compiz hotkeys
aren't going to change because non-a11y users are used to those hotkeys,
would we want something where if Orca is detected to be in use, then use
a different set of hotkeys than what is set up by default?   I would
presume that an Orca user has quite a few hotkeys of his/her own set up,
and thus a more intuitive relationship between Orca and Compiz is
needed.
-- 
Bryen Yunashko
openSUSE Board Member
openSUSE-GNOME Team Member
GNOME-A11y Team Member