Re: Reorganising accessibility features in gnome (suggestion)

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 19 Aug 2005, at 15:52, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> First, I would suggest collecting all the AT feature settings under  
> one dialogue, the existing 'Assistive Technology Support'. This  
> might require using tabs, as several other dialogues currently have.

There's a 'Preferences revisted' page on the GNOME developers wiki at  
http://live.gnome.org/PreferencesRevisited, which suggests something  
broadly similar... you might like to read that, and perhaps  
contribute to the discussion there.

> Second, when an AT feature is enabled in this dialogue the user  
> should be given the option to install the required packages  
> directly. In Ubuntu, this currently happens with the 'Shared  
> folders' utility, so the infrastructure is already there.

That sounds neat, but a bit scary to implement... remember that the  
AT tools don't just run on Ubuntu, or even just on Linux, so this  
would have to work across multiple packaging systems and platforms.   
I think the GNOME project as a whole would have to come up a  
framework for install-on-demand features before individual projects  
started tackling it.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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