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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: This month's price for the most useless new Kconfig help text ...
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 14:19:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080501131900.GL4797@implementation.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501120959.GA16700@basil.nowhere.org>

Andi Kleen, le Thu 01 May 2008 14:09:59 +0200, a écrit :
> <drumroll> ... gets CONFIG_ACCESSIBILITY
> 
> menuconfig ACCESSIBILITY
>         bool "Accessibility support"
>         ---help---
>           Enable a submenu where accessibility items may be enabled.
> 
> Can the help text be improved please? It should explain that accessibility in 
> this case means braille device drivers and possibly other similar devices.

If the society was a bit more aware of accessibility troubles in general
(I mean in the street etc.), we wouldn't have to explain the word
</grin>.

Samuel



Add a small explanation of what accessibility is.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

--- linux/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig.orig	2008-05-01 14:13:03.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/accessibility/Kconfig	2008-05-01 14:12:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 	---help---
 	  Enable a submenu where accessibility items may be enabled.
 
+	  Accessibility handles all special kinds of hardware devices or
+	  software adapters which help people with disabilities (e.g.
+	  blindness) to use computers.
+
+	  That includes braille devices, speech synthesis, keyboard
+	  remapping, etc.
+
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
 if ACCESSIBILITY

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-01 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-01 12:09 This month's price for the most useless new Kconfig help text Andi Kleen
2008-05-01 13:19 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2008-05-01 15:47   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-01 16:01     ` Samuel Thibault
2008-05-01 17:04       ` Maxim Levitsky
2008-05-01 17:36   ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-01 18:37     ` Samuel Thibault
2008-05-01 18:52       ` Stefan Richter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-01 22:02 Roland

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