[BRLTTY] wishlist for Alva dispalys

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Aldo on 2007/10/31 at 12:26 +0100]

>I just want to says that it is very very annoyinjg that the feature to have
>an auto up/down when holding the up or down key have been suppressed after
>3.5;

It hasn't actually been removed. It's just been moved. Although the default is 
for the feature to be disabled, you can go into the prefences menu and enable 
it. It's called "Autorepeat" in the menu. Remember to save your settings after 
the change to make it persistent.

>I want this as a wisxhlist to be re-integrated by default, since this is
>very easy and better instead of rpessing 24 or 49 times up or down.

Well ... the setting is there for those who want it, but the default is off.

>A good deal was probably to set the delay time to 1 sec. so that people who
>doesn't desire that useful feauter will not be disturbed by it, but IMHO I
>think its not a good idea that we couldn't press and hold up/down as in
>3.4.2 or so. 

After you enable Autorepeat, you'll find that you can configure both the 
initial delay and the rate of the feature. You can also turn on/off whether 
horizontal autorepeat works.

>I also doesn't understand what's the motivation for that
>choice.

The functionality was moved from the driver into the core so that all the 
drivers, rather than just a few of them, could use it, and so that it'd work 
the same way for all of them. When we did that, we had to decide what the 
default should be. Our decision was to default it to off so that users of 
displays who didn't have it before wouldn't be caught by surprise.

I'm sorry that you've gone so long without this feature, i.e. for several 
years, especially since it's really been there all along. I guess we didn't 
announce the change well enough when it was made.

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