Re: add libcolorblind as an external dependencie

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

Em Dom, 2007-04-15 �15:39 -0700, Peter Korn escreveu:
> 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.

For me no problems in put it inside beryl/compiz, but I still think that
gnome-mag need it and I still think that the magnifier must be separated
from the composite manager.

> 
> 
> 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 :).
> >
> >   
>