Re: [g-a-devel]Proposed implementation agnostic GNOME Speech API.

[Scott Berry <n7zib bresnan net>]

We probably could.  Would you like me to contact the author of
Gnopernicus and find out?

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Peter Korn wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> Limiting distribution to gnome-accessibility-devel given the attachments.
> Please find two PDF documents, each one is a single page containing a cheat
> sheet for 4 of the Gnopernicus layers.
>
> Remus - do ya think we could put these on www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html
> somewhere?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team
>
>
> Scott Berry wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Yeah that would be great if you could pass along your cheat sheet
> > please.  Also what software is Gnopernicus working with right now?  I
> > notice Mozilla isn't one of them.On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Peter Korn wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi Scott,
> >>
> >>Scott Berry wrote:
> >>
> >>>I also have a question here.  Why is it that Gnopernicus uses such a
> >>>complicated layer of keys.  Being new to the program it makes it quite
> >>>difficult to use.  I wonder if this could be changed?
> >>
> >>Gnopernicus is in many ways three different apps; or rather, it supports
> >>three different output modalities of which any two (or perhaps just a single
> >>one) might be of use to any given individual: e.g. speech + Braille, or
> >>magnification + speech.
> >>
> >>As there are so many commands that a user might want to issue immediately to
> >>change things (e.g. speech rate, magnification size), Gnopernicus would
> >>group related commands together on the keypad.  In this way a speech user
> >>might live on keypad layer 8 for much of the time, a magnification user on
> >>layer #1 or #2.
> >>
> >>The alternatives are:
> >>
> >>  1. have far fewer commands available by default
> >>  2. use Ctrl/Shift/Alt-keypad combinations instead of layers
> >>  3. use Function keys or them main keyboard with Ctrl/Shift/Alt combinations
> >>
> >>Of these, I think really only option #2 is worth considering.
> >>
> >>
> >>I do think it would be very helpful to have better documentation of the
> >>keypad keys.  I've cribbed up a cheat sheet for myself (a horribly
> >>inaccessable PDF document), that also is also out of date.  I'd be happy to
> >>share it, though being in graphical and basically inaccesible document, it
> >>wouldn't be of particular use to the core audience of this software.
> >>
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Peter Korn
> >>Sun Accessibility team
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 12 Dec 2003,
> >>>Rich Burridge wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>>Marc Mulcahy asked my to announce something I've been working on
> >>>>over the last few weeks, and get feedback from the community on.
> >>>>
> >>>>I've filed bug #129205
> >>>>
> >>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129205
> >>>>
> >>>>to capture this work.
> >>>>
> >>>>In short, I've created an implementation agnostic set of wrappers for
> >>>>the existing GNOME Speech v0.2.X API that used GObject. It hides the
> >>>>existing Bonobo/ORBit2 implementation under the covers.
> >>>>
> >>>>There is a test application included in one of the two attachments
> >>>>to the bug.
> >>>>
> >>>>If accepted, it's planned that the Bonobo/ORBit2 API would continue
> >>>>to be provided (but deprecated).
> >>>>
> >>>>I've also rewritten the speech related code in gnopernicus to use
> >>>>this new API, but I haven't attached that work yet, until the
> >>>>community feel that this is a good thing to do.
> >>>>
> >>>>I know the API/ABI freeze for GNOME 2.5/6 has already happened, so
> >>>>this is something we'd like to consider for GNOME 2.7/8.
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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