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Bug 640190 - Be able to hide accessiblity icon
Be able to hide accessiblity icon
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 643436 644332 649286 666451 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-21 14:58 UTC by Guillaume Desmottes
Modified: 2016-12-05 16:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Guillaume Desmottes 2011-01-21 14:58:34 UTC
I'm all for having an accessible desktop, but atm I don't need any of the accessiblity features and hope I never will. So it would be nice to be able to hide the accessiblity icon from the top bar as it's useless to me and is just a waste space.
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2011-01-21 15:07:29 UTC
An "hide the accessibility button" extension could be written, but beyond that we don't have any plans to make it optional. We want there to be a standard way to get to all these features on every desktop. We definitely see many of these features as being useful for the "general public"
 
 - Trying to use a laptop at the beach in bright sunshine - turn on high contrast
 - Showing something on your computer to a older friend with not so good vision - use Zoom or Large Text
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-01-24 09:51:14 UTC
Why not? There is a gconf key to disable the keyboard indicator (org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.keyboard). We should have one, if only to stay coherent; and it doesn't hurt having one anyway.
Comment 3 Xavier Claessens 2011-01-24 14:47:06 UTC
s/gconf/dconf/ I guess :)

@Owen: Your use case are valid, but happens maybe once per year at most (I actually never needed them in my life). Definitely not something you want to be shown all the time. It can be moved to a settings dialog. Of course it's nice to have in the panel for people who needs it, so a dconf key turned to FALSE by default seems a good choice.
Comment 4 Frederic Peters 2011-03-01 17:12:50 UTC
*** Bug 643436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Florian Müllner 2011-03-09 22:31:07 UTC
*** Bug 644332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Owen Taylor 2011-05-03 14:39:26 UTC
*** Bug 649286 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Jeremy Bicha 2011-07-21 03:27:38 UTC
Could we please get a gsettings key for this at least?

I understand and appreciate on-by-default but it is the only item in the menu bar that is not used by me or I believe a majority of users.
Comment 8 Alex Shulgin 2011-10-31 19:21:56 UTC
It is beyond me how this bug ended up resolved as WONTFIX...

Try a Google search for "hide accessibility icon gnome shell" (or variants) and you'll be amazed how common this request is.

Most of the pages talk about either commenting out a line in a file installed from package (which is going to be overwritten on next update) or installing an extension.  An extension.  To turn hide a part of existing UI.  Doesn't that sound odd to anyone else but me?

What most people would want I believe is a checkbox under "Universal Access Settings" that would hide (or show) the icon in the top bar.  No extensions, no messing with the system files, no googling for solution to such a trivial thing, no wasted time.

--
Regards,
Alex
Comment 9 Frederic Peters 2011-12-18 14:03:25 UTC
*** Bug 666451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Christian Weiske 2012-01-20 07:04:16 UTC
Since I see no other way to express my voice: I also vote for adding at least a configuration setting.

I personally do not understand why the devs want to dictate that we must have the icon.
Comment 11 rockonthemoonfm 2012-01-20 09:28:36 UTC
 - Trying to use a laptop at the beach in bright sunshine - turn on high
contrast
 - Showing something on your computer to a older friend with not so good vision
- use Zoom or Large Text

:) hehe try to figure out better arguments

it's the "new wave of heroes", my way or the highway philosophy, 

I've already took my steps away from this.
Comment 12 ausr 2012-02-23 17:37:18 UTC
I also don't understand why this is WONTFIX.

It is reasonable for users to want an option to be able to disable a feature, even if as a developer it is your favorite feature and one that you worked on for months.

Are you seriously claiming that because users might be "Trying to use a laptop at the beach" that you can't provide the option to disable a rarely used menu icon that clutters up the visual space?

This bug report is the most concise explanation of everything that is wrong with gnome3.
Comment 13 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2012-02-23 17:52:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> I also don't understand why this is WONTFIX.
> 
> It is reasonable for users to want an option to be able to disable a feature,
> even if as a developer it is your favorite feature and one that you worked on
> for months.
Yeah, and when people want to disable the clock, we have to add an option for that? What about people that don't use Bluetooth (my case), or sound, or battery?

> Are you seriously claiming that because users might be "Trying to use a laptop
> at the beach" that you can't provide the option to disable a rarely used menu
> icon that clutters up the visual space?
Are you seriously claiming that a very small icon in your top bar which may even be useful to you one day hurts you so bad that you waste your time ranting on a closed report? Come on, the Shell is much less cluttered than the old panel, you can afford one icon there. Are you afraid people think you're disabled?

You can write an extension if you really suffer from the current situation...
Comment 14 Florian Müllner 2012-02-23 18:30:17 UTC
(In reply to comment #13)
> You can write an extension if you really suffer from the current situation...

The extension exists actually, so all it takes is going to extensions.gnome.org and installing it ...
Comment 15 ausr 2012-02-23 18:44:04 UTC
I did not realize that the clock could not be easily disabled, or moved.

I now understand.
Comment 16 Alex Shulgin 2012-02-23 20:35:40 UTC
>
> Are you seriously claiming that a very small icon in your top bar which may
> even be useful to you one day hurts you so bad that you waste your time ranting
> on a closed report? Come on, the Shell is much less cluttered than the old
> panel, you can afford one icon there. Are you afraid people think you're
> disabled?

You didn't try running it on a netbook, did you?

The default set of icons/clock takes *half* of the horizontal space in
the top panel and it looks really cluttered.  If I could hide this
icon and also hide battery (unless it's discharging or otherwise might
need my attention) that would be really cool.

> You can write an extension if you really suffer from the current situation...

An extension to *disable* a feature?  Give me a break.
Comment 17 Olav Vitters 2012-02-23 20:38:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> This bug report is the most concise explanation of everything that is wrong
> with gnome3.

(In reply to comment #16)
> An extension to *disable* a feature?  Give me a break.

Such comments add no value to the bugreport. Please don't add any more.


Thanks,
-- GNOME bugmasters
Comment 18 Pander 2013-02-20 16:30:53 UTC
Could at least a boolean setting in org.gnome.desktop.interface be implemented which can be altered via gsetttings or dconf-editor?

The workaround currently available for GNOME3 3.6 requires one to alter /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/sessionMode.js Implementing such a boolean setting will also eliminate the requests for extra extensions or make it easier for people to develop extensions by themselves.