Re: Keyboard a11y tab

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

At 9:27 PM +0100 11/9/07, Denis Washington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As discussed in a previous thread, plans are under way to merge the
> keyboard and keyboard a11y capplets into a single. For those who haven't
> followed that discussion, here is the initial mockup I made:
>
> http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/keyboard.html
>
> Some of the smaller issues (like the a11y button still being there ;))
> are already fixed in my local .glade file. However, there is still one
> big problem with the mockup: the accessibility options are organized
> pretty badly. Putting all options into one tab makes the dialog much too
> high, so I put all "beep if..."-like options into an external
> "Notifications" window. This is very suboptimal, so we need another way
> to display these options. One option we were thinking about is putting
> the different a11y features into expanders; expanding one of them would
> lead to all other ones to be collapsed, which keeps the maximum height
> of the capplet window fairly small. Here is a mockup showing the idea:
>
> http://ultimum-projekt.de/mockups/expanders.png
>
> Comments and additional ideas to organize the a11y options are very
> welcome.

Maybe that using buttons to open subwindows might also be a way to 
go, especially if there are many option.

Firefox does it for example (Exceptions..., Show Cookies...):
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/options#privacy

But this is perhaps what you intended by external "Notifications" window.

Cheers

Francesco

PS: We had a similar problem with mousetweaks, that in fact is 
nothing else than the mouse accessibility. It currently uses an 
expander to hide a few popup menus:
http://live.gnome.org/Mousetweaks/Usability
 (currently the last picture of the page)