Re: Feature proposal: Information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures

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On 10/23/2011 10:45 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 22 octobre 2011 à 20:15 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : 
>> I think this is problematic. Dasher will face the same problems that a
>> standalone OSK faces - can't use it in the shell overview, can't use
>> it on the login screen, etc. If we want to bring back dasher-like
>> alternate input, it should ideally be integrated in the shell OSK, so
>> it works everywhere, and can benefit from improvements that are made
>> to make the OSK work better (such as moving windows out from
>> underneath the OSK).
> Fully agreed. Dasher is awesome, but has always lacked integration to
> the desktop. What we need is not dasher back in the modulesets; it is
> dasher’s functionality integrated right into the shell.

>From the development POV having Dasher on jhbuild modulesets would make
easier to any developer interested on improve Dasher integration to do that.



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