proposed improvement to mousekeys in accessibility

[sean d <seanvbd yahoo com>]

I had been using mousekeys to move my mouse for a few weeks and realized the mouse should move smoother and faster.  Right now at the maximum pointer speed is slow, and jerky.  I believe because of a past bug in xkb the developers were forced to use slow parameters.  Now it seems this bug is fixed.

I have attached my patch to this email, and have tested it on two systems and it works on both.  Please test using mouse keys before and after the patch is applied to see what I mean.  It should be applied:

sean flexor control-center-2.13.2 $ bzcat ../mkpatch.bz2| patch -p1

I am very new to making patches, did I do it right?

You can turn on mousekeys by running:
gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties

This is hopefully only the beginning.  I would like to improve mousekeys to add many additional items to configure it.

Before I do, I wanted to ask the correct way to do it.&nb sp; Can I add items to control the poll rate and acceleration curve in the dialog below the pointer speed and delay rates?  Should I have a second dialog box with a button to access it "Advanced" ?  Should I make these options configurable only in an xml file?

I also want to allow the user to specify which keys do what for moving the mouse and clicking rather than the default behavior which is a bit confusing and inefficient.   If it is configurable, there would not be any confusion as to what the keys actually do once you enable mouse keys.  Unfortunately I can not find where in the code this is specified.  Perhaps it is the default settings xkb uses, or it is specified in a different configuration file.

Do these changes seem reasonable?  What would I be allowed to modify.  Thanks.

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