Re: accessx-applet 0.7.0

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Thanks a lot Kevin!

I am preparing a patch for gnome-applets now; it's mostly done and
should be ready by Wednesday at the latest.

- Bill

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 18:25, Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> Hi Bill. Yes, it's okay with me to add this to gnome-applets since it
> adds an important capability to the desktop. You can send me the patch
> or go ahead and commit yourself if you feel like it.
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 13:07, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > Hi Kevin:
> > 
> > I've got a version of this applet that I'm relatively happy with, only
> > one FIXME and one TODO.
> > 
> > It's currently standalone but I'd prefer to put it in gnome-applets,
> > since it's small, and provides major benefit to an existing desktop
> > feature.  The rationale:
> > 
> > * keyboard accessibility features introduce new statefulness into the
> > keyboard which isn't visible via LEDs or other indicators; for instance,
> > individual modifier keys may be latched or locked (without CAPSLOCK for
> > instance), the "default" mouse button used by MouseKeys may change, and
> > in general keyboard accessibility features may be on without any other
> > visible change to the keyboard.
> > 
> > * this applet shows the user not only which keyboard accessibility
> > features are in use, but also shows the "state" information for
> > currently enabled features.
> > 
> > * the applet has short menu (Launch Preference Dialog, Help, About) from
> > which the keyboard accessibility capplet can be launched quickly.
> > 
> > With your permission I'd like to convert this into a patch for
> > gnome-applets, for inclusion before feature freeze (i.e. in the next 14
> > days).
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > Bill
> 
>