Re: Orca A hotkey for starting / (was, Re: menu placement and setup GUI in Ubuntu)

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

Peter Korn wrote:
> Hi Al, Henrik, gang,
>
> I think the ideal thing - which we never managed to figure out - is to 
> have a keystroke at the gdm login screen invoke the screen reader (and 
> other gesture invoke other AT), which is they carried over to the user's 
> session.  When done this way, at-spi could be loaded for that session, 
> and the same AT they launched carried over.
>
> The trick is figuring out a way to communicate that information...  Of 
> course, that same gesture would ideally be the desktop gesture as well.
>   
Sounds very sensible. Having the same gesture would be very handy so you 
could start it later in a session if you wanted or on a Live CD which 
doesn't use a log-in screen. I'd also like to see a gesture for 
magnifier and and sticky keys (the OSK might be better started from the 
menu, though a GDM mouse gesture would also be invaluable for that).

I wonder if the new patches we are applying to resolve the sudo/at-spi 
issues brings us closer to having GDM gestures.

I can talk to our Gnome guys about some simple keybindings for Edgy (Al, 
I take your point that it would be helpful), but we should also spec 
this out properly for Gnome 2.17/Edgy+1 (and let's try to get the exact 
same gestures into KDE4 !).

- Henrik