Re: [Usability] sticky keys and alt-tab

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Sep 14, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 09:57 +0100, Joachim Noreiko
> > wrote:
> > > Urg. Why do we even have this ugly little tab section? I understand 
> > > these options are provided by X, but why? What needs to happen to 
> > > kill them off or fold them into GNOME properly, or bring them 
> > > kicking and screaming into the rest of the GUI?
> >
> > Easier said than done.  There are people who use those options.  I'm 
> > one of those people, because I like using a Compose key.  We can't 
> > just ditch them. The list of options comes from the X server,
>
> And what comes from the X server is bizarre and limiting -- eg the 
> options for the compose key -- and sometimes archaic. I know it's 
> black magic that I have no hope of understanding, but will there ever 
> come a time when it's part of GNOME, and we therefore can update it?
> ...

First, design the ideal configuration interface, offering the most 
useful options you can think of, whether they exist or not.

Then, talk with the maintainer (Sergey Udaltsov, I believe) to find out 
which are possible with the current code and which aren't.

Then, go bribe some X hackers to implement the missing parts. :-)

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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