Re: a11y module proposal: MouseTweaks (i.e.: software click)

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

At 6:33 PM +0200 9/28/07, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> On 26.09.2007 17:43, Gerd Kohlberger wrote:
> > >  Le mardi 25 septembre 2007, à 17:27 +0200, Francesco Fumanti a écrit :
> > >  Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > >  After informally proposing onboard and mousetweaks for integration
> > >  into GNOME on the gnome  accessibility mailing list, here is a somewhat
> > >  more formal request for the integration of MouseTweaks into GNOME:
>
> Disclaimer: I base my comments entirely on what I saw on the project
> page in launchpad. If  that's not up to date or something I'm
> probably way off in a number of ways.
>
>  From the screenshots posted there I get the impression that
> a) it needs a HIG review or two
> b) most (all?) of the settings should be integrated in the existingcontrol 
> center dialogs.
>
> I'm not really clued in on a11y topics, so I have a hard time figuring
> out  what some of the settings would be used for, or even deciding
> whether they make sense  at all, but I absolutely believe that adding
> yet another keyboard/a11y configuration dialog is out of the question
> in times when we are trying to reduce the number of capplets.

Hello,

Thanks for taking position; though I don't 
understand exactly what pages you are referring 
to, I suspect that there is some misunderstanding:

I suppose that you are referring to the following 
page (if not, please correct me):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/doc/OnboardAndDwellAtGDM

In fact, it is an howto about how to use onboard 
and mousetweaks during GDM. I should probably 
have pointed out that onboard and mousetweaks are 
two completely independent applications (with two 
different authors):
- onboard is the onscreen keyboard
- mousetweaks is the borderless window with the 
single click, double click, drag click and right 
click buttons.

The mousetweaks module propsal has nothing to do 
with the onscreen keyboard, it only refers to the 
enhanced functionalities offered by mousetweaks 
for the pointer; particularly systemwide 
dwelling, an Assistive Technology still missing 
in GNOME.


You might also be referring to the following page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/MouseTweaks/Details

This is in fact outdated:

- The mouse-gestures part has been moved to an 
independent application called chickenscratch and 
that has nothing to do with mousetweaks.

- Mousetweaks comes now in the form of an 
application which can be seen as a  Preference 
Panel and that lets the user choose what 
functionality he wants to activate. These are:
-- dwell click: a method to click by software 
without pressing any hardware button. When using 
this fonctionality, the user needs a way to tell 
to mousetweaks what click to perform. Hence the 
need of another window with the buttons to choose 
the click. Instead of the window, mousetweaks 
also offers a panel to choose the click.
-- delay click: a direct method to open the 
contextual menu for users that can only operate 
one mousebutton
-- pointer movement tolerance: little pointer movements are ignored
-- pointer capture area: an applet for the panel 
which captures the pointer until it gets released 
for example by a determined key combination.


I hope that I could make some points clearer.


Hoping to hear from you again.


Francesco