[Kde-accessibility] Click and Drag

[Deri James]

On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 01:30, you wrote:
> 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...
>

Yes, double-clicking can be a problem (particularly in Windows & Gnome), which 
adjusting the time does ameliorate somewhat, but by increasing the time you 
also increase the chance that the 2nd click is too far away from the 1st so 
it registers as two single clicks. I often have to resort to a single click 
followed by a "Return" to emulate a double-click.

For this reason I generally use KDE (in single click mode). My previous email 
was to find whether KDE menus could remain "open" if the event was a "failed 
drag" (since, in my case, they are usually an attempt at a single click where 
my hand has accidentally moved while pressing the button). It may be that it 
is the underlying QT routine which is "helpfully" destroying the menu 
structure before returning to the event handler, in which case perhaps there 
is little KDE can do about it.

Many thanks for your helpful suggestions.

Cheers

Deri