Re: Proposed module: mousetweaks

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

At 4:52 AM +0100 12/20/07, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Homepage: https://launchpad.net/mousetweaks
> svn/git/bzr/...: 
> http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~lowfi/mousetweaks/trunk/files
> Proposal on d-d-l: 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00489.html
>
> Short description:
> ==================
> MouseTweaks is a set of special accessibility enhancements to
> controlling the mouse cursor. It provides:
>   1. a pointer capture area
>   2. a way to open the contextual menu with a left click and hold
>   3. a way to perform the various clicks (single -, double -, drag -,
>     right click) by software without any hardware button, usually called
>     dwelling.
> Particularly, this would fill the current accessibility gap in GNOME for
> users who can move the pointer, but are not able click with any hardware
> button.
>
>
> Summary so far:
> ===============
>  + a11y people liked it

Indeed; you might have a look at this link:
http://live.gnome.org/Boston2007/AccessibilitySummit/Summary?highlight=%28boston%29


>  + it seems the consensus is that it has to be integrated in
>    gnome-control-center (it might already be the case)

In fact, mousetweaks consists of:
 * a daemon that does the real work of feature 2 and 3
 * two panel applets: the first can be used with feature 3; the 
second provides feature 1
 * a gui (=mousetweaks preferences panel) to enable and configure 
feature 2 and 3

Unfortunately, the efforts to integrate mousetweaks completely into 
the gnome-control-center were not successful. While the gui is 
probably becoming the accessibility tab of the Mouse capplet, it was 
not possible for the mousetweaks coder (Gerd Kohlberger) to find a 
way to also integrate the mousetweaks daemon into the gnome control 
center (gnome-settings-daemon to be more precise). See messages 0 and 
6 of the thread in bugzilla with the patches for the gnome control 
center:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503547

Consequently, the proposal of mousetweaks to become a new module of 
GNOME is still valid; only that now the mousetweaks module consists 
of the daemon and the panel applets without the mousetweaks gui.


I have set up a few pages about mousetweaks on GNOME Live. You might 
be particularly interested in the page about the mousetweaks module 
proposal:
http://live.gnome.org/Mousetweaks/ModuleProposal


Cheers

Francesco