Re: Gnopernicus

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Hi Rich:

I am glad that you are seeing some information from at-poke now and that
you are making some headway.  Sorry that I haven't been more available
to assist. 

As you no doubt have observed, this stack is still a work-in-progress,
though the infrastructure is substantially complete and API stable now
(at least to a "1.0" state).  Gnopernicus and the applications' own
accessibility support are necessarily lagging the infrastructure a
little.

You might find 'gok' (the gnome onscreen keyboard) of interest, CVS
module "gok"; despite some window manager interaction issues at present
which limit its use in other than "Dwell Mode", it is a good demo of
things to come with respect to support for mobility disorders.

The Gnopernicus magnification support is in its infancy, so I wouldn't
be concerned if it does not work yet; the speech and braille output
should be in a working (if not bug-free) state.

BTW, support for Java applications requires installation of the "Java
Accessibility Bridge for GNOME" (cvs module java-bridge). 

Best regards,

Bill

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 21:34, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> 
> I grabbed the latest Gnome update off of Ximian. atk-poke works although
> some of the object data seems incomplete. Michael had asked about this
> earlier.
> 
> Now if I try and build gnopernicus I get aproblem where the build is
> looking for gnome-mag-1.0. This is new. Where might it be?
> 
> I cannot build. Am I missing a CVS package?
> 
> 
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> Senior Technical Staff Member
> IBM Accessibility Center
> Research Division
> EMail/web: schwer us ibm com
> 
> "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
> I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.",
> Frost
> 
> 
> 
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>                       "Adi Dascal"                                                                                                      
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>                       08/22/2002 12:22         Subject:  Re: Gnopernicus                                                                
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> 
> You are right Michael, only removing the directory it's not safe.(but
> sometimes works, so this is the easy way, but not guaranted). A guaranted
> way is described in the README file.(how to kill the daemon and so on).
> 
> Adi.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Meeks" <michael ximian com>
> To: "Adi Dascal" <ad baum ro>
> Cc: "Richard Schwerdtfeger" <schwer us ibm com>;
> <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Gnopernicus
> 
> 
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 16:30, Adi Dascal wrote:
> > > building it, please erase the ~/.gconf/apps/gnopernicus directory.
> >
> > Ahh; I remember now - in addition to removing that directory, you badly
> > need to kill gconfd first; there are 2 (~compatible) incarnations of
> > gconfd -1 and -2, so:
> >
> > killall -9 gconfd-1 ; killall -9 gconfd-2
> >
> > [NB. pkill is better on Solaris ;-]
> >
> > Otherwise the daemon will cache state and return old key values I
> > believe,
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael.
> >
> > --
> >  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
> >
> 
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