Re: add libcolorblind as an external dependencie

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi guys,

I'd like to second Behad's question/suggestion - moving this 
functionality into beryl/compiz makes a lot of sense, especially given 
the magnification features in beryl.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

> On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 21:58 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Di�es
> wrote:
>   
> > 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 
> >     
>
> Does it make more sense to have this functionality in a compositing
> manager?  You probably can hack up a compiz/beryl plugin in an
> afternoon.  Don't forget metacity though :).
>
>