[Kde-accessibility] Help for people with sight problems

[Aaron Seigo]

On December 8, 2004 12:32, Olaf Schmidt wrote:
> [Aaron Seigo, Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 20:14]
>
> > perhaps add a StartupId::highlightCursor() which uses the
> > drawing/timeout routines but uses an appropriate animation sequence for
> > drawing attention to the cursor?
>
> My first idea was to write a very small application that opens an
> unmanaged circle-shaped window filled with the highlighted foreground and
> background colour of the current colour scheme.
>
> The application could be assigned to any key sequence or mouse gesture in
> kcontrol. Alternatively it could be a system tray application checking
> the current status of the modifier keys without grabbing them.
>
> Doing this as an external application would be easier to write for me, and
> I could send it to people for testing even before KDE 3.4 is released.
> The disadvantage would be that people using it would have to assign it to
> a key combination first. (Or can we define one by default even if the
> application is shipped in kdeaccessibility, not kdebase?)

well, yes, but the trick is to add them to kdebase/kcontrol/keys/shortcuts.cpp

for KDE4 i want to make the key bindings config not use hardcoded values (way 
to inflexible, really)

it would really be better if this was in kdebase. any particular reason to put 
it in kdeaccessability, other than, well, that it's an accessability 
thing? ;-)

i'd also note that if it was added to kdesktop it would be a far lower 
overhead (one less app) ... 

/me notes he'd be happy to do this ...

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
Society is Geometric
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