[Kde-accessibility] Broken Sticky Keys (Bug 41778)

[Bill Haneman]

BY the way:

The sticky keys behavior reported below is a "feature" of XKB; it has a
timeout after which it turns itself off.  It also can be configured to
turn itself off when two keys are pressed at the same time.

I _suspect_ that the issue here is exposing control of the timeout (and
disabling/enabling it), and exposing control over the "turn off when two
keys are pressed simultaneous" feature.

Sorry I can't help investigate personally, I am real busy with the Gnome
Accessibility stuff ATM.

There are some freeware command-line accessx control utilities that
would allow the user to set these things, one could experiment with one
of these utilities to see whether the XKB extension is working properly.

regards,

-Bill

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 10:07, Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote:
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> Hi David, Hi Matthias,
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> David Parker wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
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> > There is a bug in Sticky Keys that has been around for quite some time.
> > It has been reported (in April 02) but ignored by the person assigned
> > the bug.=20
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> The bug has been assigned to Matthias H=F6lzer-Kl=FCpfel.=20
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> David, have you contacted him about this?
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> Matthias, is there a reason why the bug still exists? Is it fixed in 3.1=20
> HEAD, or will you fix it, or should I forward this to kde-devel to ask=20
> whether someone can tell me where to look for fixing this bug before 3.1=20
> is out? (I have very few experience of KDE programming.)
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> > I think before Accessibility features are extended, existing ones shoul=
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> > be made to work.
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> The people currently working on KDE accessibility programs have very few=20
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> knowledge to fix every accessibility bug we know of.
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> There is not much time left till KDE 3.1 is out, so I am not sure it will=
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> be fixed till then - though it certainly should.
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> > The bug is this:
> > (See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D41778)
> > After enabling Sticky Keys it functions properly initially but then
> > Sticky Keys turns itself off after some period of inavtivity.
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> > This bug was purported to be fixed in KDE 3.0 but, in fact, is not. Som=
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> > of us actually use and depend on Sticky Keys to be more productive. I
> > just installed Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3.0 and can confirm, as anyone els=
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> > who would care to try, that the bug is still there.
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> You are right - I use KDE 3.0.4, and it is still there.
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> This really needs to be fixed.
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> > What will it take to get someone to look at this?
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> > Thanks,
> > David
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> Thanks for reporting again,
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> Olaf
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