Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30

[Ben Konrath <ben konrath utoronto ca>]

Hi,

I'm thinking about shifting the development focus of Caribou from my
initial plan. The next stage of my plan was to start adding switch
access scanning to Caribou which would work towards text entry
functionality for two use cases: mouse-only users and switch-access users.

Looking at other stuff going on in GNOME accessibility community right
now, I think it makes more sense to concentrate on making a rock solid
application for the mouse-only user case in time for GNOME 2.30. This
will allow distros to keep the CORBA base at-spi off for mouse only
users (including dwell click users using MouseTweaks) as well as for the
other use cases covered by programs using pyatspi. This doesn't help
switch only users who will still need to use the CORBA based at-api but
at least it's a step to include more users with the DBus based at-spi.

I know that I missed the official module proposal for GNOME 2.30 so
Caribou will not be officially included but I still think there is value
to concentrating on one user group first. And I can defintely have
something usable for mouse-only users in time for GNOME 2.30.

So what do people think? Any thoughts about this would be appreciated.

Cheers, Ben