[Kde-accessibility] Click and Drag

[Peter Korn]

Hi Deri,

The "SlowKeys" feature of AccessX is typically used by folks with hand shake 
to prevent duplicate keystrokes.  While we don't have a similarly named 
feature for mouse clicks, you can generally set the mouse double-click time. 
Have you tried setting a long double-click time so as to reject spurious 
double-clicks?


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

P.S. I'm sorry if there are double-click time boundaries in KDE that might 
prevent this from being useful to you - I'm more of a GNOME person myself...

Deri James wrote:
> All physical disabilities pose different problems, in my case I have problems 
> with fine motor control.
> 
> There is one area of KDE which can cause me some frustration. Menu Items are 
> now draggable (with cursor showing whether what you are dragging to is 
> sensible or not (the "no entry" sign)), however, due to my hand shake, a 
> single click is often detected as the start of a drag.
> 
> Quite often this "drag" is a very short distance (often to itself), but 
> because this drag is "illegal" (no entry sign) the whole menu structure is 
> destroyed and I have to start again from the beginning.
> 
> Is it feasible to add the following 2 rules to the logic for click & drag:-
> 
> 	If "drag" is to itself: treat as an activation (i.e. single click).
> 
> 	If "drag" is to another illegal area (no entry): ignore and keep menu "open". 
> 
> If either of these were implemented it would be a big help for me.
> 
> I look forward to hearing your views on this.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Deri
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