Re: Dasher 3.2.0 released

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Matthew,

Dasher 3.2.0 is cool.  I was able to interact with menus in gedit (and also
enter text directly).  A few comments/suggestions:

 1. There seem to be multiple sets of empty boxes I need to navigate
    through to get to the menus in gedit - perhaps some of the code
    in GOK could be helpful here?

 2. Once I opened the Open File dialog, Dasher didn't give me access
    to the UI elements - again perhaps GOK code could be used for
    this?

 3. The control box/alphabet is practically buried within the rest of
    the alphabet.  At least for two dimensional Dasher use, would you
    consider putting that on the top or bottom (vertical vs. horizontal),
    for rapid access?  It also suggests a kind of "escape" to do something
    completely different from entering text to put it in a different 
    place in the Dasher display.

 4. The Menus alphabet always showed me first a set of running 
    applications to choose between before I could get to the menus
    of the app I was interacting with.  Since most of the time I'm
    going to want to interact with the menus of the application I'm
    also entering text into, please consider having menus be for the
    topmost application's menus, and put at the top level of Control
    an option to switch to a different application (again, rather
    like GOK).


Thanks!

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> Version 3.2.0 of the Dasher predictive text entry application is now
> available for download at
> http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/download/linux/source/3.2/ ,
> with binary packages (currently for Debian and Solaris) at
> http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/Download.html .
> 
> This version is the first release of the new stable branch, and is aimed
> at the Gnome 2.4 and 2.5 desktops (but will continue to work happily
> under 2.2). New features include integration with the gnome
> accessibility framework and gnome-speech, and the ability to enter text
> directly into other applications.
> 
> Screenshot pr0n can be found at
> http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/images/Solaris.png - that's
> Dasher running under Sun's Solaris Gnome happily (sorry about the fonts,
> they look lovely locally...)
> 
> We're planning on moving over to the Gnome CVS in the very near future
> (having been somewhat caught up in finishing off this release), so
> translation shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> On a slightly separate note, I'm going to be in Toronto next week with
> the aim of meeting up with the GOK team - with a bit of luck, we'll be
> able to come up with some interesting ideas for integration of the
> text-entry technologies.
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59 srcf ucam org
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