(Yes, I know, a really long feature name.)
Description
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There are situations where a user can't use a hardware keyboard, or a
full-size keyboard cannot be used (at least for long texts). For example:
* when operating a computer one-handed, by joystick, touchscreen,
trackball, or mouse;
* when operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by
eyetracker);
* on a palmtop computer;
* on a wearable compute
Module proposed
===========
In order to fulfill this feature, we propose Dasher [1][2], that was
created for fulfill the previous situations. Using a mouse, experienced
users can write at 39 words per minute. Dasher already uses the GNOME
infrastructure (git repository, bugzilla, etc.)
Owner
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Patrick Welche
Involved parties
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Accessibility team
Status
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Just before the release of GNOME 3.0. some people was not sure about if
Dasher could work properly on GNOME 3.0 stack, like the concerns about
compatibility with at-spi2. So it was dropped from the GNOME 3.X moduleset.
Since then, the maintainer and developers tested Dasher with GNOME 3,
and proved that it works fine with it [3]. In the same way, although the
port to at-spi2 is still in process [4], this is just a optional
dependency, that just provides some extra features.
Although it is true that doesn't work properly on GNOME Shell overview
(as Caribou on the past, that lead to deep changes on Caribou and a
GNOME Shell built-in keyboard view), Dasher can be still be useful with
GNOME Shell, as for those searches, users can temporarily other tool
(Dasher is mostly useful for those users when they need to write large
amount of texts). In the same way it is still fully useful on the
fallback mode.
Note
====
In summary, this feature proposal is basically ask for include again
Dasher on GNOME moduleset.
[1] https://live.gnome.org/Dasher
[2] http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
[3]
https://live.gnome.org/Dasher?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=gnome3.png
[4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621951
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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias
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