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

[Tom Masterson <kd7cyu gmail com>]

I agree with Joanie's reasoning here.  Key echo can be turned off if you 
don't want it.  I have to go make other adjustments in preferences on new 
orca setups anyway so what is one more.  I have to go turn on braille as I 
don't use speech by preference.

Tom


On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:

> 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.
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