[Bug 342567] Re: Sticky Keys and Slow Keys popups ignore notification daemon capabilities

[Vish]

** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
    Milestone: None => maverick-round-8-potpourri

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Sticky Keys and Slow Keys popups ignore notification daemon capabilities
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342567
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Status in Gnome Settings Daemon: Unknown
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Triaged
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” source package in Lucid: Triaged

Bug description:
When keyboard accessibility features are turned on, gnome-settings-daemon watches for the user pressing Ctrl multiple times or holding down Shift for 8 seconds. When this happens, it presents a notification bubble asking the user if he wishes to activate the corresponding feature (Sticky Keys and Slow Keys).

Jaunty's new notify-osd falls back to popping up a dialog box. (One with the distinct aura of not wanting to be there). In any notification system without that kind of fallback, it would be impossible to enable sticky or slow keys since the system blindly relies on an action button being pressed.

Specifically, this problem lies in gnome-settings-daemon/plugins/a11y-keyboard, with ax_slowkeys_warning_post and ax_stickykeys_warning_post. The plugin should instead use custom alert boxes. Mockups at <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#keyboard-accessibility>

I am posting this first to Launchpad instead of upstream, because I think Ubuntu at the moment is more committed to the issue.