Re: [orca-list] Your comments on Bug 735691 - Change default Screen reader shortcut?

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

For sure do not change to copy a version of windows that is not even very popular.
Also, people are just finally gotten used to the change to super alt s  from the old control s, at least 
those who are on 
newer releases, and making another change wiill just create pointless work for support folks.
And most ppl do not use the microsoft screenreder, even win8 ppl do not use it exclusively as far as I've 
heard, and each 
wiindows screenreader has it's default shortcut. 
This is perhaps the silliest idea I've heard floated in good faith in a long time.
As for adding an extra shortcut, my first reaction was, sure, why not. A quick 2nd thought however over rules 
this. Many 
of us use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. There's chromvox for instance, and many of us need it to do things 
that firefox 
can't at the moment. Others define app launchers because they always have and still do, or because they find 
it actually 
slower to start the variety of programs they need on some of the "modern" GUIs than it was on something like 
gnome2 where 
you could organize two or three small groups of related apps on custom panels. 
Sorry, don't want to debate merrits of different desktops, but just saying that I've been running out of 
possibilities, at 
least logical, (to me), and easy to remember ones, and accidentally conflicted the key I'd set to launch 
cheese with 
another shortcut that I don't use that often. 
Keep what we have, or at least change to something evocative and logical if one is going to change, o for 
orca as Vinux 
used to do, but really just do not change. It ain't broke!
--

B.H.
 

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 05:32:40PM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> Bastien Nocera, a long-time GNOME developer and maintainer of (amongst
> other things) gnome-settings-daemon, filed the following bug today:
>
>    Bug 735691 - Change default Screen reader shortcut
>    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735691
>
>    <begin quoted opening report>
>    We currently use Alt+Win+S, Windows 8 uses Win+Enter, or Win+Volume
>    up (on tablets):
>    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hear-text-read-aloud-narrator.
>
>    Should we switch to that? Or add it?
>    <end quoted opening report>
>
> Personally, I don't care much what the shortcut is, as long as we have
> one and the one we have makes sense. And I myself don't see any problems
> with the current shortcut. But if you guys have opinions, please add
> them on this mailing list and/or on the bug as a comment.
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
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