Re: the keyboard accessibility capplet

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 16:13, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  - 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.
> 
> hmm, it should be a menu item (but there is no menu bar in this applet).
> 
> however, it shouldn't be solaris specific, as the reason you are moving
> to gnome may be that you are migrating to linux itself.
> 

I guess I don't get it at all; which is more likely:

 - user uses gnome for first time, opens keyboard capplet, sees
   "Import AccessX," knows what it means and where to find the old
   file, copies this file from their old UNIX workstation, imports it

 - user uses gnome for first time, opens keyboard capplet, and already
   having the capplet open takes the tiny amount of time required to
   just change the settings in-place

If the capplet were cleaned up, it would only have about 10-15
settings max anyway; how long does it take to change those...  and all
the rest of the user's CDE configuration has already been dumped, so
they'll be adjusting a lot more than their AccessX settings to begin
with.

If we have a way to migrate from CDE, I'd do it as a startup wizard
when you first log in, that covers more settings - rather than
incurring permanent control panel clutter.

Havoc