Bug 190369

Summary:	Confirmation dialog when activating slow keys uses unclear explanation and button text
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Mathieu Jobin <opensource>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	amantia, eljefedelito, kde-2011.08, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs, usability
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	slow keys confirmation dialog is unintuitive

Description Mathieu Jobin 2009-04-22 21:53:21 UTC

Version:           unknown (using 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27-11-server

Hi,

I will be attaching a screenshot of the dialog window in question. it isn't clear at all when should the user hit.

what question is the "yes/no" buttons is suppose to answer?
a choice drop down + yes/no buttons makes no sense 

either you give me three choice, or you ask me a simple yes/no question. but not both. unless No is like Cancel but then I'm not sure if the slowkeys already been triggered. this really ain't clear.

That said, why is KDE trying to guess if the user has disabilities? because Microsoft Windows(tm) tried to? I will throw a wild guess saying that 99% of KDE user do not have disabilities and that people with disabilities will receive the help of a sysadmin to enable those feature. don't try to figure it out whenever I'm holding a key too long....

in any case, the dialog should be fixed

Comment 1 Mathieu Jobin 2009-04-22 21:55:56 UTC

Created attachment 33008 [details]
slow keys confirmation dialog is unintuitive

Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2009-06-27 13:17:54 UTC

> don't try to figure it
> out whenever I'm holding a key too long....

As a disabled user, we know that this is how to enable accessibility features. Press Shift five times for sticky keys, for instance. As to your 99% figure, you will find that those with manual disabilities can grow to over 5% in some populations, and over 20% for heavy lifelong keyboard users.

That said, I do agree that the wording of the dialogue in question should be improved.

Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-02 23:03:28 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-16 05:27:59 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version?

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 5 András Manţia 2018-12-16 20:45:13 UTC

https://phabricator.kde.org/D17533

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-09-28 23:09:10 UTC

*** Bug 263575 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Mathieu Jobin 2020-12-07 08:58:39 UTC

Patch from Dec 2018 looks reasonable

why don't we merge it ?

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2020-12-07 15:22:48 UTC

Because there were outstanding issues raised during the review process, including the use of bold text. Perhaps somebody could take over the work and address outstanding concerns.

Would you like to?