Re: [orca-list] autodetection of keyboard layouts?

[Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com>]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:39:10AM AEDT, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> NVDA handles this in a nice way IIRC. If you launch it without existing
> preferences, you get a dialog box letting you set the most important
> preferences, just enough so the remaining setup would be easier. Orca could
> pop up a dialog on first run asking which keyboard layout you'd like,
> perhaps with a bit of explanatory text about how desktop layouts use the
> Insert key which might make accessing other preferences difficult on a
> laptop.

This goes against the concept of Orca being a desktop service, not an
application. An alternative would be for Orca to announce the keyboard
shortcut to switch to the other keyboard layout if there are no settings
present.

Luke