Ubuntu
control-center package

gnome accessibility: Messes up keyboard

Bug #65920 reported by Gustaf
18
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Henrik Nilsen Omma

Bug Description

When shift is held down for a few seconds and the irritating dialog pops up, it hinders ctrl and shift from being used while it is shown.
I happened to move away the dialog and continued with my work, but ctrl and shift was unusable. When closing the dialog, everything was fine again. No dialog on earth should be this evil.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu do you use?

Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in control-center:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

I see the same thing on Edgy (near RC). It's the slow keys dialog that does it. I have sticky keys enabled and when I open Gedit after this dialog pops up I am not able to type into it before it's closed.

I agree that these dialogs are generally bad and need to be redesigned. I'll spec it up for Edgy+1.

Changed in control-center:
assignee: desktop-bugs → henrik
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Gustaf (opera) wrote :

edgy

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Alex Mauer (hawke) wrote :

Since some of my bugs were marked as a duplicate of this one, I'll enumerate the distinct problems described in those bugs:

There's no way to disable the "shortcut" methods for enabling these features without disabling all accessibility features (such as automatically repeating keys when they're held down, a basic feature of every keyboard I've ever used)

The discoverability of the shortcuts is very low (I don't know of anyone who would think "How can I make it so my keys don't activate for 3/10 seconds after they're pressed...I know, I'll hold down shift for awhile, that'll probably do it!")

Once the dialog "pops up" (see bug #31720), the feature it describes is already active. This means that the buttons on the dialog in question ("don't activate" and "activate") do not describe what they do ("deactivate" and "don't deactivate" respectively)

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Alex Mauer (hawke) wrote :

Henrik, any news on the spec for this?

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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

The dialog no longer pops up for me when holding shift down in intrepid. Closing (please reopen if you can still reproduce it).

Changed in control-center:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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