On 05/15/2012 10:17 PM, Rovanion Luckey wrote: > Greetings all, > > This fall I and three other students did an accessibility study in > which Dasher was a part. One of the issues we encountered was that the > user after having typed it's sentence or any other text into Dasher > had to copy and paste it into the application they were actually > using. And if they later discovered an issue in the text they'd have > to copy it back to Dasher, edit it and then copy and paste it to the > application again.
This copy and paste is not required for most of the apps. I have just tried with gedit and I was able to write text with dasher without this copy and paste process. Hint: in order to do that you need to use the option "direct" $dasher -a direct Having said so, and elaborating "most of the apps": in the case of gnome-shell this copy and paste is required on the overview, as there isn't a full integration in that case. > > If this hasn't changed since then and without having any knowledge of > the input management code or the Dasher code I would like to ask a > question: Wouldn't it be great to have Dasher appear when a text field > is activated in Gnome much like it does on Android[1]? "direct" was a Dasher option since years. About having Dasher appear when a text field appear, yes I guess that it would be a fine improvement. > > The Input Manager is called when the text area is activated. It then > puts characters in the field. This has been a great success on Android > with the most popular keyboard in the store being installed on about > 100.000 devices. Couldn't something of the sorts be done in Gnome for > on screen keyboards, accessibility tools and other input managers like > the one discussed in this thread? They all seem to do the same thing, > just in different ways. Obviously there is a relation between alternative keyboard inputs (including on screen keyboards and apps like dasher) and input methods. BR -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
