From koffice-devel  Mon Oct 31 00:06:09 2005
From: Gary Cramblitt <garycramblitt () comcast ! net>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:06:09 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: [Accessibility] keyboard extensions
Message-Id: <200510301906.10123.garycramblitt () comcast ! net>
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Thomas blogged about the new keyboard access feature in KOffice
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1580
and it was featured in the "This month in SVN" article, so I guess we should turn this feature on?  Currently, it has to be activated by adding the following line to koffice/lib/kofficecore/koMainWindow.cc
        new KPanelKbdSizer(this, "mw-panelSizer");
just below the line
        setCentralWidget( d->m_splitter );
in KoMainWindow constructor.  Also, add 
       #include "kpanelkbdsizer.h"
at the top.  Then "make install" in koffice/lib/kofficecore.
Take a look at the comments at top of lib/kofficecore/kpanelkbdsizer.h for all the features/keys this thing adds.
There are few minor problems, but I don't think any are showstoppers:
1.  The code uses an eventFilter, which adds a slight performance hit.  It would be better to install the event filter only when one of the shortcuts is pressed (F8, Shift+F8, or Alt+F8), but the problem is that once a QDockWindow becomes undocked and has focus, the KAction activate() signals don't fire.
2.   Sizing doesn't work reliably for dock windows.  I described this in an earlier email, so I won't repeat here.
3.  Users can change the F8, Shift+F8, Alt+F8 shortcuts, but if they assign multi-key shortcuts, they won't work.  Judging from some of the code I've seen in kdelibs, this is a surprisingly common problem throughout KDE.  If I could solve the activate() signal problem for undocked QDockWindows, it would also solve this problem. Also, I want to change the name of the object.  Currently, its called KPanelKdbSizer, but that is only one of the capabilities it adds.  I would suggest KKbdAccessExtensions.  I'd call it KoKbdAccessExtensions, but its my intention to eventually port this guy into kdelibs so *all* KDE apps can benefit from it.  That will have to wait for KDE4 tho.
Anyway, does anyone object to activating the keyboard access extensions?
-- Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainerhttp://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php_______________________________________________koffice-devel mailing listkoffice-devel@kde.orghttps://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel