Re: Gnopernicus

["Richard Schwerdtfeger" <schwer us ibm com>]

Hi Bill,

I understand that there are problems with the Linux X-server implementation
that prohibit magnification. Would you please detail me the changes needed
to support magnification that are implemented on Solaris systems.

Rich


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



                                                                                                                                        
                      Bill Haneman                                                                                                      
                      <bill haneman sun        To:       Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM IBMUS                                         
                      .com>                    cc:       Adi Dascal <ad baum ro>, gnome-accessibility-list gnome org, Michael Meeks     
                                                <michael ximian com>                                                                    
                      08/22/2002 05:14         Subject:  Re: Gnopernicus                                                                
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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
>
>
>
>

>                       "Adi Dascal"

>                       <ad baum ro>             To:       "Michael Meeks"
<michael ximian com>
>                                                cc:       Richard
Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM IBMUS, <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
>                       08/22/2002 12:22         Subject:  Re: Gnopernicus

>                       PM

>

>

>
>
>
> 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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