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

[Scott Berry <n7zib bresnan net>]

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 inaccessable PDF document), that also is also out of date.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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