Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 18:22 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:

> Great start.  There seem to be quite a few features missing from your
> Input Devices mockup that are in the current Keyboard Accessibility
> capplet, though, where are they moving to?  E.g. import settings,
> disable if unused for N seconds, beep when AccessX features turned on or
> off from keyboard, to name but a few).  A GUI is required for at least
> some of these to meet a new Free Standards Group keyboard a11y spec
> that's due to be pushed out soon, I believe.

Oh, I just noticed your question at the top:

        Is it technically important to have a top-level "Enable keyboard
        accessibility" option like in the current Keyboard Accessibility
        capplet?

Answer: I don't think there's a requirement in the forthcoming spec for
this, but would have to check with the a11y folks.  More importantly,
though, the current option doesn't actually do what the label says it
does, due to an initial misunderstanding of the XKB specs by billh which
we still haven't fixed :/
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131339

Cheeri,
Calum.

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