Bill Haneman wrote:
There have been GOK bugs filed. I filed several when I wrote this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Reviews/GOK . Call that griping if you like, but I call it constructive criticism. It's certainly a 'willingness to engage cooperatively to improve the existing Gnome onscreen keyboard suite'. Read the article and the linked bug reports and I think you will agree.In the beginning we tried to give guidance, but I got the distinct impression that it was going to /dev/null. This is why I am frustrated - lots of behind-the-scenes vague griping, without GOK bugs and seemingly without a willingness to engage cooperatively to improvethe existing Gnome onscreen keyboard suite,
Referring to formal credentials is a poor way to conduct a debate. Being designed by experts does not automatically make it good. Widespread testing by real-life users is a more reliable path to success IMO. But for that to work the product must be usable (if not quite feature complete) and the developers must be responsive to feedback. We have a fair amount of input from real-life users of on-screen keyboards and I value that more than the view of experts.which was designed by experts in the field of adaptive technologies.
And I would like to cooperate with you in making a new and better one (and I tried it your way first). Neither look likely to happen now.I would very much like to work cooperatively with you and with the rest of the Ubuntu team, but in the context of improving our existing OSKs.
- Henrik