On 29 May 2010, at 11:58, Felipe Erias Morandeira wrote:

> Do you want to deactivate Sticky Keys?
> You just pressed two keys at once, or pressed the Shift key 5 times in a
> row. This turns off the Sticky Keys feature, which affects the way you
> keyboard works.
> 
> [Don't deactivate] [Deactivate] [Cancel] [OK]
> 
> 
> Everything about this dialog is wrong:
> 
> - I don't know what Sticky Keys is

In its slight defence, the dialog is asking if you want to *deactivate* the 
feature, which suggests you had already turned it on (deliberately or 
otherwise).  In general, I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to assume 
that you wouldn't have turned it on if you didn't know what it was for, even if 
that's not quite what happened here.

That said, the "do you want to activate sticky keys?" notification doesn't give 
you any more information either. Adding a brief description to that, or linking 
to an appropriate section of online help, is probably a reasonable enhancement 
request.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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