Re: 2.4 New Accessibility Features

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 17:54, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Personally I'd merge this with the current a11y dialog 

We thought about that, but the current dialog has a master "Enable
Keyboard Accessibility" switch in it that enables everything else in the
current three tabs[1], so adding a new tab that wasn't affected by that
switch wouldn't have been very pleasant :/  Bill has some thoughts about
how to get rid of that master switch, which would allow us to do this,
but I dunno if that's in his plans for 2.4.

> > 	http://www.gnome.org/~gman/Screenshot-Gnome-bell-properties.png
> 
> Can't this go in the Sound dialog? Since Sounds dialog is pretty small
> and this one is tiny.

Yeah, I was in two minds about that one as well.  If I was deaf, though,
presumably I'd be thinking more along the lines of "how do I make my
terminal flash when something important happens" rather than "how do I
stop this thing beeping".  (And a lamer reason is that in Windows, it's
also part of the accessibility control panel rather than the Sound
control panel, so people switching from a Windows desktop might be more
inclined to look there first...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] Well, except Repeat Keys, but that's a nasty anomaly, so we don't
really want any more of those in this particular window :)

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