Erin Wilkins wrote:
> On Thu June 12 2008 16:39:59 Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> James Kerr wrote:
>>> In KDE3 you can disable the "press shift for 8 seconds" effect by turning
>>> off "Activation Gestures". You can also reduce the "Acceptance delay" (if
>>> slow keys are activated) to as little as 50msec. (kcontrol/Accessibility)
>>> I've no idea about KDE4.
>> Yeah it's all still there. That's how I "turned it off" as I previously
>> mentioned.
>>
>> I still maintain that this is a braindead accessibility option,
>> especially if you can turn it on with a return before you get a chance
>> to read what the damn dialog says... doubly so if the dialog doesn't
>> appear again and it just turns on and off without notification....

> The option is useful for older/handicapped people that have trouble typing.
> That said, having the confirmation dialog default to turning it on doesn't
> seem like the best choice. Perhaps it would be worth filing a bug report
> upstream to change the default to leaving it off?

Yeah, perhaps I was a bit overzealous in my critisism. I didn't mean to
doubt the mode itself (although to be honest when enabling it, the
slowness worked but the repeat rate didn't match it so for me I had to
hold the key for a while to get it to come out, then before I had a
chance to release it, I'd had a few letters repeated). My main beef was
with the activation method. I'll poke a few KDE folks and file a bug if
needed.

> Also, the dialog should keep reappearing every time. There is an option to
> tell it not to display again, but from personal experience, that defaults to
> off. Did it get turned on by accident?

It probably was me dicking around with it that turned the dialog off,
but I don't remember specifically doing it. I also couldn't find the
options to renable the dialog in the accessibility part of the system
settings app (the notifications dialog insists it is configured to
display a popup). Fodder for another bug perhaps (knotify4 seems to be
running fine).

Col


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