Re: add libcolorblind as an external dependencie

[Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br>]

Hi

Em S� 2007-04-14 �18:32 -0600, Elijah Newren escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/22/07, Carlos Eduardo R. Di�es <cerdiogenes yahoo com br> wrote:
> > gnome-mag can be builted with libcolorblind support to
> > support image filters for the colorblind. This can be
> > added as an external dependencie. Debian and Ubuntu
> > will ship it in the next release or are shipping (I
> > can't recall correctly). The implementation can be
> > founded at:
> 
> So there weren't any significant objections to the external dependency
> itself earlier, though there were some suggestions that gnome-mag is
> perhaps not the most important place to use it.  However...

Although it's not intuitive for a colorblind person realize that she/he
must start a magnifier to apply a colorblind filter there are cases
where visually impariments that are more suitable for a magnifier
overlap with colorblind, so gnome-mag, if is not the most important
place, is a piece of software that must have this support.

Sometime ago, I was talking with Daniel Ruoso about this and he give a
good suggestion, that was to develop an applet where a user can select
only a filter and this applet will start the magnifier with 1x, so it
will behave to the user as a colorblind filter only, not a magnifier.
Also, some colorblind users talked that they don't want the filter
running all the time, so a keystroke must be defined to enable/disable
it when the user think that he/she is not distinguishing colors. I will
try to provide an implementation for this until the end of the mounth
and I also created a bugzilla reference to track this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422347

Best regards,
Carlos.

> 
> > http://people.debian.org/~ruoso/
> >
> > If you want to download the package directly just
> > access:
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~ruoso/colorblind-0.0.1.tar.gz
> 
> This doesn't strike me as the most stable download location.  We've
> dealt with unstable download locations in the past, but it has always
> bothered me and we've slowly been trying to weed some of them out.  Is
> there any chance we could get a more stable location?
> 
> Thanks,
> Elijah