Re: [orca-list] Why is key echo on by default?

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Jace.

A user who needs key echo enabled (i.e. because they are not totally
familiar with the layout of their keyboard) might not be able to enable
it themselves in Orca preferences if they do not know what keys they
are pressing as they attempt to get into Orca preferences.

As someone who can touch type, and also happens to be sighted, that
setting is the very first thing I turn off in a new set up because it
annoys me. But I don't think it would be a good, upstream default to
change key echo to off by default.

That said, I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. :)

--joanie

On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 15:56 +0100, Jace Kattalakis via orca-list wrote:
> Something I'm wondering about with regard to Orca and default
> settings, 
> and it's come up in a few podcasts/recordings I've used to install 
> tricky stuff.
>
> Why is key echo on by default, is that down to the indivdual distro
> or 
> is that a part of having Orca that in order to have Orca in your 
> distro's live image/repos, here's the default settings you need? I
> turn 
> key echo off the instant I load Orca on a live session, and playing 
> around with VMs got me wondering on why key echo is always on by
> default 
> and if there's anything I can do on an iso image to leave it off by 
> default since it gets insanely spammy, insanely quickly, I've had
> times 
> where it's left control left alt then won't hush.
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> GNOME Universal Access guide:
> https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html