Re: [orca-list] autodetection of keyboard layouts?

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

NVDA handles this in a nice way IIRC. If you launch it without existing 
preferences, you get a dialog box letting you set the most important 
preferences, just enough so the remaining setup would be easier. Orca 
could pop up a dialog on first run asking which keyboard layout you'd 
like, perhaps with a bit of explanatory text about how desktop layouts 
use the Insert key which might make accessing other preferences 
difficult on a laptop. This would avoid the situation I've been in, 
where I'm setting up Orca on a laptop and right away have to recall 
where I've left the Insert key in order to set it up further. :)


On 03/06/2016 06:39 AM, Jason White wrote:
> kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
> > This is a feature I've been pondering over for a while. Would it be
> > possible to add code to orca which would autodetect the type of computer
> > you're running on, desktop or laptop, and automatically activate that
> > keyboard layout?
>
> You can use an external keyboard on a laptop, so even if it's possible to
> detect whether a laptop is being used, it's hard to know what kind of keyboard
> layout is in operation.
>
> Perhaps a better solution would be a key combination that can be used in
> either desktop or laptop mode to switch the layout setting in Orca. You could
> then switch to laptop layout without having to use the Orca configuration
> dialogue.
>
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