[Bug 622415] Re: Onboard keyboard in not in the menu

[Francesco Fumanti]

We, the developers of onboard, ship onboard with menu items (desktop
files). However, the Ubuntu developers continue to change them to be
hidden by default.

In fact, I agree with you that it should be possible to start the
onscreen keyboard by using the mouse; the keyboard shortcut might not be
useful, but who knows every use case.

As the menu items get installed, but hidden by default, it is possible
to access them without using the keyboard: open the Main Menu control
panel in the menu System->Preferences and put a check mark next to the
onboard menu items in the Universal Access menu to make them visible. I
am aware that it is not a good solution as the user has to know about
the existence of the menu items of onboard to perform this step; but at
least, it is a solution that can be performed by using only the mouse.

@ Ubuntu developers

It seems to me that you are always hiding the onboard menus because you
don't want the accessibility menu to be visible. What about placing
visible onboard menu items in one of the visible menus? Would you agree
with that? If so, could you please tell us in which menu we should place
them?

On the other hand, I wonder what are the reasons to hide the Universal
Access menu. Would making it visible not give additional value to the
Ubuntu distribution?

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Onboard keyboard in not in the menu 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/622415
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