[orca-list] Main window

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

While I have turned off the main window of orca (like it seems most
other users have), I can think why it can be useful and my thoughts on
this follow.

As said before there is the inquisitive users who may need this, and new
users who haven't read orca's documentation for key commands. I have
also encounter situations where my system first loads and some of the
orca keys (ie. the settings dialog hotkey and the quit orca hotkey)
don't work, so the main window would be another way of accessing these
should this happen. I know there is the "orca -q" command that will quit
orca and this is what I normally do so I can reload orca (to get the
hotkeys working properly). I don't know how widely things like "orca -q"
and other orca command options are known, but you need to know they
exist which a GUI doesn't help with showing, whereas the main window is
there and obvious.

I don't think it is much to turn off the main window, you only need to
do this once, and you should be changing other settings anyway if you
are a serious user, so this isn't much at all. Also I wouldn't think
that the main window would slow things down if it is done properly,
after all it is only a basic window with two buttons, if that slows
things down then how will other more complicated GUI apps run?

From
Michael Whapples