https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398937
Bug ID: 398937
Summary: Option to display text instead of icons to compensate
for visual agnosia.
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Reporter: shughes1...@gmail.com
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
Visual agnosia is a visual impairment where one can't recognize the objects
that one is looking at. For example, a person with visual agnosia would not be
able to tell what the icons in, say, the system tray mean.
A reasonable accommodation for this is to use text instead of icons; for
example, LibreOffice allows for buttons to only show text with no icon.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Check every option in Accessibility settings
2. Realize there is no option
3. Check the panel settings; nothing there either
4. Switch to using the application menu and window list
5. Resign yourself to having to wait for the pop up to know if that's the icon
that will bring up the text
EXPECTED RESULT
Click the "use text only buttons" option in Accessibility and have the DE use
all text only buttons. Individual programs would ideally inherit this, but not
necessarily, since many already allow this.
ACTUAL RESULT
There is no option for this other than "make text icons" which is suboptimal,
since it would limit the size of the type.
SOFTWARE VERSIONS
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.50.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.50.0
Qt Version: 5.11.1
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
If you could also make the text inherit the font size set by the user, that
would also be appreciated.
I hope I got the information right, turns out some of the information was
hidden in menus that were only denoted by an icon.
I haven't really explained much about visual agnosia, so here's a link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_agnosia
I'd also like to specify that this bug report/feature request accommodates
associative agnosia.
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