Re: [g-a-devel]gnopernicus keys

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Peter Korn wrote:
regarding gnopernicus key commands:

> The alternatives are:
>
>  1. have far fewer commands available by default
>  2. use Ctrl/Shift/Alt-keypad combinations instead of layers
>  3. use Function keys or them main keyboard with Ctrl/Shift/Alt 
> combinations
>
> Of these, I think really only option #2 is worth considering.

#2 however has the distinct disadvantage of clashing with commonly-used 
GNOME keybindings.

It might be worth investigating whether we can use less-common modifier 
keys, such as the
'Windows' key, etc. in conjunction with numpad or arrow keys, for some 
functions.

It also might make sense to use the Function keys (with a modifier, say 
Ctrl-F1, etc.) to
switch gnopernicus 'modes' or 'layers', and the use numpad/arrow keys 
(possibly
with shift/alt/etc.) for gnopernicus-specific navigation within that 
'layer'.  This might have the potential
for less conflict with GNOME keybindings, while retaining the 
convenience of the number pad
for the most frequent gnopernicus command keys.

- Bill

> I do think it would be very helpful to have better documentation of 
> the keypad keys.  I've cribbed up a cheat sheet for myself (a horribly 
> inaccessable PDF document), that also is also out of date.  I'd be 
> happy to share it, though being in graphical and basically inaccesible 
> document, it wouldn't be of particular use to the core audience of 
> this software.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team
>
> > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003,
> > Rich Burridge wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Marc Mulcahy asked my to announce something I've been working on
> > > over the last few weeks, and get feedback from the community on.
> > >
> > > I've filed bug #129205
> > >
> > >  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129205
> > >
> > > to capture this work.
> > >
> > > In short, I've created an implementation agnostic set of wrappers for
> > > the existing GNOME Speech v0.2.X API that used GObject. It hides the
> > > existing Bonobo/ORBit2 implementation under the covers.
> > >
> > > There is a test application included in one of the two attachments
> > > to the bug.
> > >
> > > If accepted, it's planned that the Bonobo/ORBit2 API would continue
> > > to be provided (but deprecated).
> > >
> > > I've also rewritten the speech related code in gnopernicus to use
> > > this new API, but I haven't attached that work yet, until the
> > > community feel that this is a good thing to do.
> > >
> > > I know the API/ABI freeze for GNOME 2.5/6 has already happened, so
> > > this is something we'd like to consider for GNOME 2.7/8.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
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