GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 113307
need UI for assistive technology support key, visual bell
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
We need UI for turning on/off assistive technology support, and for the 'visual bell' feature. I have a patch that provides these capabilities and adds two new capplets to the 'Desktop Preferences->Accessibility' menu. The icons are purely placeholders.
Created attachment 16643 [details] [review] patch to provide two new capplets
Feedback, please from control-center maintainers! I'd like to resolve outstanding issues and commit since feature freeze is soon and these are important user features for accessibility. It has been suggested that the gnome bell properties could go into the 'sound' capplet; I am not totally opposed to that but Calum and I thought it over and still believe putting this in 'Desktop Preferences->Accessibility' would be better. The other dialog surely needs to be in 'Accessibility' - there's a known issue with the implementation for saving a session since it's reading/writing session-manual at the moment. Barring API in gnome-session (the preferred long-term solution), it's been suggested that a gconf key be provided and that g-s-d or gnome-session start the ATs. Personally I'd rather see g-s doing this than g-s-d since g-s-d can die/restart but g-s pretty much can't :-) thus we'd avoid some nasty "check for multiple copies, etc." code which would be required in g-s-d. thanks
new patch that adds visual-bell UI to the Sound capplet, as per Jody/JRB suggestion.
Created attachment 17201 [details] [review] patch to provide system bell UI in sound capplet
Created attachment 17203 [details] placeholder icon for use in the previous patch.
Created attachment 17204 [details] [review] patch to provide _only_ the AT Properties capplet, under the 'Accessibility' submenu. Missing .pngs.
note that the second patch, for the AT-Properties UI, is submitted with the expectation that the back-end code for adding ATs to the user's startup, will be changed prior to release.
Created attachment 17232 [details] [review] improved at-properties patch thanks to Calum
Created attachment 17233 [details] [review] improved sound capplet patch thanks to Calum
Created attachment 17240 [details] corrected .glade file for new sound capplet with calum's changes
Created attachment 17241 [details] Screenshot (in glade) of what the dialog was *supposed* to look like after the patch was applied :)
versions of these patches are now applied to gnome-control-center.