<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" id="preferences_introduction">
  <info>
    <title type="sort">0. Introduction to <app>Orca</app>'s Preferences</title>
    <title type="link">Introduction to <app>Orca</app>'s Preferences</title>
    <link type="guide" xref="preferences" />
    <link type="next" xref="preferences_general" />
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Joanmarie Diggs</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>
  </info>
  <title>Introduction to <app>Orca</app>'s Preferences</title>
  <section id="orca">
    <title>Orca Preferences</title>
    <p>
      Orca preferences allow you to customize functionality in <app>Orca</app>
      which applies to all applications. An example of an Orca preference is
      key echo because key echo is something that applies to all applications.
    </p>
    <p>
      Note that Orca preferences can be customized on an application-by-application
      basis. For instance you can set the default key echo to words and then
      set the key echo for Pidgin to be none. Having done so, <app>Orca</app>
      would always echo each word that you typed, unless you were in Pidgin.
    </p>
    <note style="tip">
      <title>Keyboard Shortcuts for Getting Into the Preferences Dialogs</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            <keyseq><key>Orca Modifier</key><key>Space</key></keyseq>:
            <app>Orca</app>'s Preferences
          </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Orca Modifier</key><key>Space</key>
            </keyseq>: <app>Orca</app>'s Preferences for the current
            application
          </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </note>
  </section>
  <section id="application_unique">
    <title>Application-Unique Preferences</title>
      <p>
        In contrast to Orca preferences, there are application-unique preferences.
        These preferences allow you to customize <app>Orca</app> functionality
        that only applies in certain environments, such as on web pages or in
        chat applications. As a result, you will only find these options
        available in the application-specific preferences dialogs and only for
        those applications to which these options apply.
      </p>
  </section>
</page>