Re: [Usability] Sticky Keys

[Vishnoo <drkvi-a yahoo com>]

On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 11:58 +0100, Felipe Erias Morandeira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today I was playing a fullscreen game (Openarena) when suddenly a dialog
> popped up saying:
> 
> 
> - gnome settings daemon -
> 
> Do you want to deactivate Sticky Keys?
> You just pressed two keys at once, or pressed the Shift key 5 times in a
> row. This turns off the Sticky Keys feature, which affects the way you
> keyboard works.
> 
> [Don't deactivate] [Deactivate] [Cancel] [OK]
> 
> 
> Everything about this dialog is wrong:
> 
>  - I don't know what Sticky Keys is
>  - It doesn't tell me of offer a way to get more info
>  - It is scary (affect the way my keyboard works???)
>  - It doesn't know why it appeared ("you did X, or maybe Y")
>  - It has only one possible action, actually deactivate SK, but it
> offers four buttons
>  - Closing the dialog, "Don't deactivate", "Cancel" and "OK" should do
> exactly the same thing (nothing): why so many ways of doing nothing?

This[4 buttons] is caused due to notify-osd and is an Ubuntu specific
bug,:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/342567

>  - It popped up by surprise when I was doing something completely unrelated
>  - I believe that it should not even exist in the first place
> 
> 
> My proposed solution is that this dialog should simply disappear because
> this "feature" is actually annoying and useless.

-- 
Cheers,
Vish