Re: [gdm-list] a11y module proposal: MouseTweaks (i.e.: software click)
- From: Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>
- To: Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>, Gerd Kohlberger <lowfi chello at>
- Cc: gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org, Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>, gdm-list gnome org, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [gdm-list] a11y module proposal: MouseTweaks (i.e.: software click)
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:47:06 +0200
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
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