Re: 2.6 proposed module: dasher

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Frederic Crozat wrote:

> Le lun 12/01/2004 à 18:44, Bill Haneman a écrit :
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> > Murray said:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > The release team is likely to reject dasher as a new module unless the GNOME
> > > accessibility experts tell us that they need it. Please speak up now if that
> > > is surprising.
> > >
> > >      
> > I find it surprising!
> >
> > I thought all the email to date on Dasher was positive; the i18n issues 
> > are sorted,
> > it exports almost no strings, and it adds considerable new functionality to
> > the GNOME desktop.  It's also now in GNOME CVS.  Matthew has done a lot 
> > of work to make it not only more GNOME-friendly, but GNOME-integrated.
> >
> > So what's the issue here?
> >    
>
> Mainly, there is no documentation and no way to understand how to use
> it.. 
>
> When I packaged it for Mdk, I ran dasher executable and I wasn't able to
> understand anything to it :((
Hmm.. did you check the project homepage or README?

This ought to be pretty fixable, as there is _lots_ of documentation at
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
(the dasher homepage).  If it's just a matter of migrating some docs to
XML/Docbook then I don't see why this can't be done very soon.

- Bill

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