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Custom emulated system keyboard keys #6060

Closed LeonarddeR closed 4 years ago

LeonarddeR commented 8 years ago

Several braille display drivers add emulated system keyboard keys to NVDA, such as escape or alt. It might be an interesting feature if one could add other keys for emulation, for example when one wants to add an emulated system keyboard key to a braille function key which they can't choose by default. I'd suggest adding a separate button to the imput gestures dialog "Add emulated system keyboard key", which allows you to press a random key on the keyboard which is than added to the emulated system keyboard keys category in the dialog. After that, one should be able to add a gesture to it.

jcsteh commented 7 years ago

I'm bothered by having a special button to add emulated keys which is always present. It just doesn't really "fit" and is only relevant to one category. I suggested in https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/5959#issuecomment-224762276 that we could abuse the Add button to do this only while focused in the emulated keys category. From a technical standpoint, this seems a bit strange, but I think it makes sense from a UX perspective.

LeonarddeR commented 7 years ago

I agree there, provided that the emulated system keyboard keys is always present in the input gestures tree.

LeonarddeR commented 7 years ago

I will take this as soon as I have the time for it, but it will probably be a private project, so not on behalf of @babbagecom. I consider it a relevant issue though, not only specifically for braille.

I will do a self-assignment, but if anyone wants to take this before I start working on it, feel free to poke me.

dkager commented 6 years ago

I think we should also evaluate the list that is already there. For example:

jcsteh commented 6 years ago

@dkager commented on Dec 3, 2017, 9:08 PM GMT+10:

I think we should also evaluate the list that is already there.

The "list that is already there" is purely based on what braille display driver you have loaded. There is no default list otherwise.

  • Is there a need to translate between the key and its function? I.e. instead of Windows+D, the entry would read "Go to desktop".

I think this is more trouble than its worth. That would require special casing and hard-coding these names.

dkager commented 6 years ago

The "list that is already there" is purely based on what braille display driver you have loaded. There is no default list otherwise.

Interesting. I would expect there to be a default set, since you might want to assign a specific key to a touch or keyboard gesture.

LeonarddeR commented 6 years ago

@dkager, there will be a default list of toggle scripts as part of #7843.

LeonarddeR commented 5 years ago

I currently have neither time nor interest to work on #7784 any time soon.