Ang. Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30

[Mats Lundälv <mats lundalv vgregion se>]

I strongly support you on these points
Steve: 
Go for USB game as the primary source
of switch input - as it's a standard, but clearly separated from the basic
keyboard and mouse input - and good interface products - like the JoyCable
- are there on the market. Support for the other interface alternatives
may come later
And of course the general urge for switch
input asap. 

Mats

Från:	Steve Lee <steve fullmeasure co uk>
Till:	Willie Walker <William Walker sun com>
Kopia:	Gnome Accessibility List <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Datum:	2009-12-10 18:03
Ärende:	Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30
Sänt av:	gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org

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2009/12/9 Willie Walker <William Walker sun com>:
> So that leaves GOK users who depend upon switch-based access.  With
XEvIE
> having suffered a ill-fated death, poor GOK is being attacked on yet
another
> side.  So, I think it may make sense to revisit switch-based
access once
> XInput2 is more prevalent.  At that time, we may also investigate
other new
> ideas for switch-based access such as Nomon, Jambu, etc.  Until
that point,
> we may need to recommend that existing switch-based users remain on
GNOME
> 2.28 -- I'm not sure if that's an acceptable thing, however, and will
check.

As most switches these days appear as USB HID devices, through the use
of physical interfaces such as the JoyCable, it is possible to get
switch input events using PyGame Joystick support (though you have to
poll). So in Jambu the following is used from the main GTK pump
http://www.oatsoft.org/svn/jambu/trunk/src/lib/jambu/Switch.py

I'm not clear how this compares with the fully integrated X events
approaches that Willie mentions.

My view is the sooner we have a viable switch solution on GNOME the
better in order to be able to attract the users.

Steve Lee
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