Re: [orca-list] date and time keybindings

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Jason,
You reminded me of one thing I intended to mention but forgot to, 
providing resources for those who want to learn about orca and gnome is 
probably of greater value. Its for this reason I started to record some 
audio tutorials, I wish my resources would allow these to be done more 
quickly.

In fact I would say trying to make something too familiar with subtle 
differences can actually make the transition harder. I will give a 
personal example. In gnome to get to the desktop you press ctrl+alt+d in 
Windows you press windows+d, there's still times when I use windows and 
press ctrl+alt+d (I mainly use linux and occasionally use windows). 
Compare this with something very different, the desktop menu systems, 
gnome press alt+f1 and select the menu you want to enter, windows hit 
windows key (or ctrl+esc) and only one menu, I don't think I have 
confused those (they differ sufficiently that I think of them as two 
different tasks).

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Jason White wrote:
> Isaac Porat<isaac porat me uk>  wrote:
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> > The fact of the matter is that only a tiny fraction of people use
> > Linux and even smaller among blind people and the smoother the
> > transition the better.
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> Not at the expense of worse defaults for everybody, however. Transitions are
> short-lived, for each user, whereas the amount of time spent actually using
> the software, once learned, should be much greater; thus it makes sense to
> prefer defaults that are considered better for users who have made the
> transition already, while providing resources to help newcomers to learn what
> is new and different about Orca.
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> Of course, in the case of key bindings, these should be easy to change anyway,
> as discussed earlier.
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