Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Steve Lee
On 22 February 2010 05:27, Jason White wrote: > I actually think Gnome accessibility efforts are remarkably successful, given > the limited resources available and the nature of the problems that need to be > solved. +1000 > If user > interfaces, including the free software/open-source community

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Jason White
Steve Lee wrote: > On 22 February 2010 05:27, Jason White wrote: > > If user interfaces, including the free software/open-source community, are > > headed toward an era in which a descendant of what we today call a "Web > > browser" becomes the desktop, then what would make most sense is a > >

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nolan Darilek, le Sun 21 Feb 2010 22:58:43 -0600, a écrit : > I'm curious to know what issues you're > having with GNOME that make it so vastly difficult in your situation, Maybe not "vastly", but in the case of gnome-terminal not working, that drops the whole lot of console applications, which

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jason White, le Mon 22 Feb 2010 16:27:53 +1100, a écrit : > The decision process doesn't have the same top-down control structure > that a proprietary operating system vendor can exercise. Mmm, Even free software projects do have such top-down control structures. For instance in Debian you're not

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 22 février 2010, à 11:53 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > - in glade, some automatic tests could be done: for instance, if a > button doesn't have _any_ text attached to it, glade could warn the > developper. Is there a bug opened for this? :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont

Announce: mousetweaks 2.29.91

2010-02-22 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Dear reader, Mousetweaks version 2.29.91 has been released and can be downloaded from: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mousetweaks/2.29/ sha256sum of mousetweaks-2.29.91.tar.bz2: f97a6a89448f7fccc167e48edd5abd5597229063125610d21cbfe6406d49418f sha256sum of mousetweaks-2.29.91.tar.gz 91

Single click mode for all apps, not just Nautilus

2010-02-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
I am now moving to Gnome from KDE. In KDE I have configured single-click mode, in this mode there is no concept of a double click. I see that Nautilus can be configured for single click, but what about other apps? For instance Evolution still needs a double click to open contacts. Note that I sent

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Kenny Hitt
Hi. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:53:24AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mmm, Even free software projects do have such top-down control > structures. For instance in Debian you're not supposed to leave an > architecture apart when you package an application, and critical bugs on > them are release-c

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Eitan Isaacson
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 14:49 -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:53:24AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Mmm, Even free software projects do have such top-down control > > structures. For instance in Debian you're not supposed to leave an > > architecture apart when you pa

Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

2010-02-22 Thread Jason White
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jason White, le Mon 22 Feb 2010 16:27:53 +1100, a écrit : > > The decision process doesn't have the same top-down control structure > > that a proprietary operating system vendor can exercise. > > Mmm, Even free software projects do have such top-down control > structures