Tony Baechler here.
Kyle, I find your rant amusing. Back in the good old days of DOS, I used
Vocal-Eyes. Guess what the key for time was. No, not F12. Actually, it was
undefined. Do you know what I picked on my own? Ctrl-F12. I was very happy
with it. It's way out of the way and doesn't interfere with anything else,
but it's easy to press when I want it. On those very rare times I'm in a DOS
emulator, I still use it. It makes sense to me. The title of the app you're
in is far more important than knowing the time. One annoying thing about
Speakup is there is no time hotkey.
On 4/24/2017 8:29 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
No. F12 does not mean time in any language. F12 may be a Jaws thing, and it
may even be an NVDA thing, but it's far from a standard. Last I checked,
time wasn't spelled with an f anything. Therefore, f12 telling me the time
is stupid and illogical at best. I want my t damn it. T for time, t for
tell, t for anything you like, but don't make me learn a completely stupid
and illogical key combination simply because some proprietary power decided
long ago that t for time was somehow insufficient. If you want f12 or even
the page down key to tell you the time, by all means, please do configure
Orca that way, for yourself. Those of us who have used Orca, and even those
of us who came to Orca from somewhere else, fully appreciate the benefits of
Orca's mnemonic keybindings over the stupid and illogical ones we had to
learn in other screen readers just to get them to do basic things.
~Kyle
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