[Bug 275450] Re: menu items missing on fresh install of Ubuntu

[Francesco Fumanti]

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there is supposed to be an easy way to start onboard when booting with a11y enabled
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Onboard does not depend on the accessibility framework. Onboard is a rather simple onscreen keyboard and thus it wanted to avoid the issues involved when running at-spi. 

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In my experience, that means, just open a terminal and type the application name.
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I would even go further: I suppose that the typical onscreen keyboard user does not have a hardware keyboard; so he can't type the name of an application in the terminal. 

Fortunately, GDM has the accessibility icon that opens the accessibility
dialog where the user can start onboard; otherwise the users needing an
onscreen keyboard would not even be able to log in. However,
automatically starting the onscreen keyboard in the desktop session when
the user started it during the GDM session also does not solve the
problem: if the user for example closes the onscreen keyboard by
accident; he would have to search for it in a situation where he would
not be able to type.

Experienced users might click with the mouse through the file manager to
go into the /usr/bin folder and start it from there; or open the Main
Menu to unhide the desktop entries (supposing he knows about their
existance). But should Ubuntu not be the distribution also usable by
unexperienced people?

Anyway, I find the situation a bit odd: onboard is an onscreen keyboard
that was submitted by Ubuntu as a GSOC project because they wanted an
onscreen keyboard that was easy to use. So why not make it more easily
accessible (in other words: more easy to find and start) by people that
are not initiated about onscreen keyboards or that are new to Ubuntu!?

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Title:
  menu items missing on fresh install of Ubuntu