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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kde-accessibility] Patch for accessibility bug
From:       David Parker <david () dkpweb ! net>
Date:       2002-10-24 2:41:23
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I want to express my thanks to Bill and Olaf for your quick diagnoses and 
solution. I received notice that Olaf's patch was committed. See status at
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41778
Your efforts are greatly appreciated!

Thanks
David

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 07:37 am, Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote:
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> Hello!
>
> Does anyone no the current maintainer of kcontrol > access > kaccess.cpp?
>
> I would be very grateful if someone with more knowledge of KDE internals
> could have a look at the attached diff and check whether this really
> fixes bug 41778 as intended. The bug really needs to be fixed in 3.1, as
> it makes some of the accessibility functions more or less unusable.
> See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41778.
>
> I do not have a CVS account, so if someone commits this for me, the bug
> will be gone in KDE 3.1, otherwise it will stay.
>
> Technical details of the patch: XKB has a function to automatically switch
> of accessibility functions after a period of inactivity.
>
> kaccess.cpp forgets to disable this timeout function. The bug fix adds a
> line which switches the timeout off.
>
> As there is no option in kcontrol to set the timeout, it should always be
> disabled. Maybe it is possible to add an option in KDE 3.2 about whether
> the timeout should be enabled, but  we are in string freeze and need a
> soulution for KDE 3.1.
>
> See also the discussion on kde-accessibility
> (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-accessibility&m=103525621028139&w=2). Thanks
> to Bill Haneman from the Gnome Accessibility team who watched
> kde-accessibility and pointed us to the cause of the problem.
>
> A lot of physically handicapped people need this problem fixed, so I would
> really appreciate it if someone with more knowledge than me could make
> sure this makes it into KDE 3.1
>
> This is the first time I have tried to write a bug fix for KDE, so please
> don't be angry if the bug fix contains errors. (I have not even learned
> C++ properly yet.)
>
> Olaf.
>
> PS: Please CC to me, as I am not in kde-devel.
>
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