GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316943
mouse keys config dialog's help doesn't describe mouse keys in detail
Last modified: 2006-02-06 13:32:33 UTC
Forwarded from http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11200 I enabled the mouse keys feature using the keyboard accessibility configuration tool. After doing that, I wanted to know what key to press to emulate the middle mouse button. So I clicked on the help button in the configuration tool (with the mouse keys tab selected in the config tool). This popped up a section of the gnome manual called "Mouse Preferences" (under the "Using Preferences Tools" section). While this section explains how to configure the mouse keys feature, it doesn't explain how to _use_ mouse keys. Nor does it contain a link to the section that does. (This isn't much of an issue for the mouse motion, as the keybindings are obvious. But the bindings for the 2nd and 3rd mouse buttons are not.) This can be remedied by adding a link from the Mouse Preferences help item to the "Configuring the Keyboard -> To Enable the Keyboard to Emulate the Mouse" help item. (The latter explains the keybindings for Mouse Keys.) Other information:
I think this is a gnome-applets bug.
I think this is referring to the control-center capplet. Watch as we shift this bug around.
In 2.12, the help button takes me to a section called "Configuring Keyboard Accessibility Options", which is the section of the Desktop User Guide concerned with this prefs pane. It should indeed have a proper link to the Accessibility Guide, which explains the same thing but from a different perspective. I am looking into this, reassigning this bug. I would add though that the icon in the Mouse Keys page of the dialog is misleading, as it shows a mouse over the 4 arrow keys. These do not affect the mouse, the numeric keypad does.
I've had a veritable orgy of linking to the Accessibility Guide :) Fix is in CVS. Marking this bug as closed.