the keyboard accessibility capplet

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

I know everyone is tired of hearing about it, but sadly that doesn't
mean the problem is fixed. I complained about this before 2.0, but had
to give up so we could ship - now that we're unfrozen again, it's time
to bring it back up. ;-)

The problem: the Keyboard Accessibility Configuration dialog still
needs major love, despite a few rewrites.

Maybe it's just me - here's what I think is wrong with it:

 - Having both a slider and a spinbutton for one setting makes the
   whole thing look awful and 10x more confusing.

 - the title of the window is inconsistent with other capplets 
   ("Configuration" not "Preferences").

 - the title says "AccessX" which is UNIX-workstation-cruft
   terminology.

 - the "enable keyboard accessibility" checkbox is bad; most users
   here will interpret it to mean "make my keyboard work" and wonder
   why they would uncheck it.

   Also, there is no reason why you can't just check or uncheck the
   four specific checkboxes (mouse keys, bounce keys, etc.) as you
   have to do on Windows XP, especially given the need to trim the
   size of this control panel. You don't need the save-myself-a-couple
   clicks extra checkbox that has an unclear label.

 - putting a space before colons in labels is just wrong.

 - the "Import CDE AccessX file" button should be in a
   Solaris-specific --enable-solaris-stuff compile option, and absent
   otherwise. And probably does not belong in the dialog button box
   anyway, it's not a dialog action.

 - abbreviation "msecs" is not good.

 - the mouse prefs are duplicated from the "Mouse" control panel, 
   adding to the extra clutter.

 - the button to open the Keyboard capplet is bogus; if people want
   Keyboard settings they go to Preferences->Keyboard. It would make
   more sense to have an Accessibility button in the Keyboard control
   panel, if anything.

 - unless it was fixed recently, it still appears as the only item 
   in its own submenu.

So this thing is twice as big and confusing as it needs to be, due to
extra sliders/spinbuttons, extra buttons in general, duplication of
mouse capplet; and it adds a whole submenu to the Preferences menu.

I don't know if I have the right answer to all the problems, but can
we _at least_ lose the slider/spinbutton stuff, and the AccessX stuff,
and the extra one-item submenu?

Havoc