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   Matt Campbell (matt@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 01:06:51 JST Matt Campbell

   Question for NVDA users: In the keyboard section of settings, there's a checkbox called "Handle keys from other applications". This setting is enabled by default. If it's disabled, it prevents remote access tools from working well with NVDA on the remote target machine. But this isn't clear to someone just looking through the settings. The setting was added due to an issue with a specific Vietnamese input utility. Does anyone have any other reason to turn it off?

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     Matt Campbell (matt@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 01:06:50 JST Matt Campbell

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     Thanks to my foray into GNOME history yesterday, I'm thinking about this NVDA setting in light of a classic article by a GNOME developer on the cost of preferences: https://ometer.com/preferences.html

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     Matt Campbell (matt@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 01:06:51 JST Matt Campbell

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     If the only legitimate use of that setting is for that specific Vietnamese input utility, then I have a proposal for a different solution to that specific problem, which eliminates the setting, since it's too easy to turn off the setting without knowing what one is doing and break other things. But I want to collect more information about possible other uses of that setting before proposing my own solution.

     carl marks repeated this.