Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-11-29 Thread Elijah Newren
On Nov 29, 2007 5:14 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also interestingly, when you view the menu with alt+space the Move option > doesn't list the Alt+F7 keyboard shortcut. That hinders discoverability a > bit. Thanks for the tip, I've wished for this before. Um, it does here. What

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-11-29 Thread Elijah Newren
On Nov 29, 2007 8:00 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2.2.20 I think. I guess I'm not confident on how to tell what window manager > I'm using. Metacity or compiz fusion, since I've not done anything to change > that. It's Ubuntu 7.10 with effects enabled. You can find out some detai

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-11-29 Thread Willie Walker
When I was working on X Windows accessibility at Digital in the early 1990's, I modified the popular window manager at the time (mwm?) to have an option to automatically put up scrollbars if the window was too large for the display. It seemed to work well, though I cannot remember if/how the u

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-11-29 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Calum, Hans Petter, This sounds interesting. Any way to see and play with a prototype (and to get user feedback on it)? I also wonder whether and to what extent Compiz might play a role here (though perhaps we don't want to make a dependency on that just yet)... Regards, Peter Cc'ing

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-11-29 Thread Calum Benson
Cc'ing gnome-accessibility-list too... On 28 Nov 2007, at 23:23, Hans Petter Jansson wrote: > I've been discussing accessibility/usability with visually impaired > users lately, and one thing that came up, and that I believe to be > low-hanging fruit, is the problem of windows being bigger than

Re: somewhat OT: a gnome build question

2007-11-29 Thread Janina Sajka
You'll find current devhelp and yelp conflict with Firefox 3. Basically, you get to choose between them. Since yelp isn't accessible, and since I don't need devhelp, my choice has been for the accessible Firefox--now in beta. I can't advise you on Epiphany specifically, but would suggest you leave

Re: Tapir predictive keyboard

2007-11-29 Thread Steve Lee
On 28/11/2007, David Bolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks slick. Is this already going to become part of GNOME via Dasher? > cheers, David MacKay has indicated that it will be a separate project as far as they are concerned upstream. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers w