[accessiblelinux] Re: Adding volume controls to orca-customizations.py
- From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:13:36 -0400
Hi, Storm. I'm a bit confused by the question, because Attila already
assigned volume up to Orca+Page Up, volume down to Orca+Page Down, and Mute
to Orca+End. So, err... yes, assigning volume control to Orca+movement keys
is fine, and in fact better, I think. Isaac pointed out that users don't
really use the Vinux keybindings Orca+Left for decrease pitch and Orca+Right
for increase pitch. His thinking is that users set pitch only once in a
great while, and then leave it alone, so it is better off just being in the
Orca settings dialog. I tend to agree with this. However, users do use
Orca+Up and Orca+Down for increase/decrease speech rate, so those are good
additions in Vinux. I think the natural choices for volume up/down are
either the Orca+Page UP/Down keys, or the Orca+Left/Right keys. Mute on End
is ok, but I don't know the end key position very well, and I've already
accidentally typed Orca+End once. Since Attila doesn't ask the computer to
announce "Mute", I thought I had crashed Orca, but restarting it didn't
work. It took me about 10 minutes of debugging to figure out that I had
muted the speakers. So, I would not mind seeing mute move to say
Orca+Delete, which is harder for me to accidentally press and easier for my
fingers to find. That said, I'm still
quite ok with Attila's assignements.
Thanks,
Bill
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi,
> I am working on getting this added to the website. I have a question
> though. Using non alphanumeric keybindings is slightly different syntax than
> using a letter like say a for example. Because the volume keys are going to
> most likely not conflict with anything, should I still offer a different key
> option for them, and if so, would limiting the choices to arrow keys and
> pageup/down, home, end, or delete be ok?
> Thanks
> Storm
>
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> On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 04:33 -0400, Bill Cox wrote:
>
> Hi, Storm.
>
> Hammer Attila did an outstanding job patching your orca-customizations
> script to add volume up, volume down, and mute keybindings. I've
> already added it to the scripts that build Vinux 3.0. Could you add
> them to your script? I've attached both Attila's patch file, and the
> resulting script we currently use in Vinux. I'll update the Vinux
> version to your latest as soon as you think it's ready.
>
> I believe the lack of volume controls in Orca is major oversight.
> Just this week we saw a thread on the Orca list where a guy was asking
> how to increase the volume in a silent virtual machine. No one had a
> solution and the guy gave up. Of course, if a blind user can't get
> Orca started, this doesn't help him. I think there is a chance that
> we can convince Ubuntu to add a standard keyboard binding for Orca to
> Control+Alt+o, and in theory it could work both at the GDM login and
> after login.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
>
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