Re: [orca-list] Do you want to change the default Orca keyboard layout to laptop ?

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

I presume I'll live well enough with the change if it's made, but that 
will be easier if, say, the first time Orca starts it is able to tell 
you what the default is and how to change it if you want to.


If you were replying to my comments on what kind of laptop I'd get, what 
I said was that we'd get one with a number pad if possible, not that we 
otherwise wouldn't get one at all.  I don't want a laptop at the moment, 
but if I do at some point, the dweeb part of my mind might decide it's 
time to learn how to work on one without a number pad.  My wife, who 
does want a new laptop (the one she has is on life support), does not 
share this technical/mechanical bent.  For her, it will be a truly royal 
pain, not a mere nuisance, if she must focus on learning to work with 
fewer keys while doing some of the work she does.  So, there will 
doubtless be a price to pay, and we'll have to decide which is the 
better bargain.  (Or, though it may be a minor nuisance, maybe an 
external keyboard with a number pad will serve well enough.)


In any event, I've not read until now that Orca having desktop settings 
as the default was a problem for anybody.  (Indeed, I'd thought that it 
set its default by what computer it was running on, perhaps an abysmal 
sort of ignorance on my part.) Although I do not share the view this 
should change simply because a majority of folks use laptops (lots of 
choices for simple majorities wreak havoc on minorities), I can 
certainly accept and support the change if it will solve problems flr 
laptop users.  It makes no sense to me that anybody should have needless 
trouble only for my slight convenience.


Best!

Al




On 5/4/20 2:34 PM, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> It's one thing to say that you will get a laptop with a number pad if
> you get one at all. The problem comes in the fact that not only are
> laptops with number pads much harder to find, but they tend to be far
> more expensive than laptops without number pads. Seeing the message
> that indicates using both the capslock and insert keys as Orca
> modifiers by default however, I would have to agree with that option.
> Then users who need to switch layouts will be able to do so easily, no
> matter which layout is the default.
> ~Kyle
>
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