Re: [g-a-devel] D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Jason Grieves
Peter, You bring up a great point! I have always felt that learning/cognitive AT software has been underdeveloped. Programs similar to Kurzweil/WYNN are unavailable for Linux. A well thought out GUI wrapping a overlay API, Orca, OCR/Scan, learning tools(dictionary, note taker, etc) would be ver

Re: [g-a-devel] D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Carlos, There are several additional AT uses I've been part of discussions on that might inform your new API. One is for something like an on-screen scanning keyboard to scan in place -> to highlight regions of the screen, regions of a window, in order to allow a user who can only press a

Re: [g-a-devel] D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Ariel Rios
Willie et al, I was just thinking before actually reading this emai to write you (Willie) so we could restart this discussion so I can write a nice proposal for my next Mozilla grant proposal so I can possibly start working on this by next month or so. I will start writing a document and creatin

Re: [g-a-devel] D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Carlos: This is a very timely discussion to have since there are a bunch of thoughts on many people's minds right now. These include the following: * Eliminating the Bonobo dependency from accessibility stuff in GNOME. Note that this doesn't necessarily equate to eliminating CORBA. * Und

Re: [g-a-devel] D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Eitan Isaacson
Hi Carlos, > I also would like to now if someone have interest in the concept of an > 'unmanaged' zoom region; that is, a zoom region that have content > defined by the application using the API. Although this is something > that is in gnome-mag API, I don't know if this is working. Maybe we > can

[g-a-devel] D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Hi, I would like to create a D-BUS based magnification API, but since some radical changes where introduced in the desktop due the X composite extension, and I'm not involved with the applications that use gnome-mag API, I would like to hear the community before present something. First, I though