I strongly support you on these points Steve: Go for USB game as the primary source of switch input - as it's a standard, but clearly separated from the basic keyboard and mouse input - and good interface products - like the JoyCable - are there on the market. Support for the other interface alternatives may come later And of course the general urge for switch input asap.
Mats Från: Steve Lee <[email protected]> Till: Willie Walker <[email protected]> Kopia: Gnome Accessibility List <[email protected]> Datum: 2009-12-10 18:03 Ärende: Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30 Sänt av: [email protected] 2009/12/9 Willie Walker <[email protected]>: > So that leaves GOK users who depend upon switch-based access. With XEvIE > having suffered a ill-fated death, poor GOK is being attacked on yet another > side. So, I think it may make sense to revisit switch-based access once > XInput2 is more prevalent. At that time, we may also investigate other new > ideas for switch-based access such as Nomon, Jambu, etc. Until that point, > we may need to recommend that existing switch-based users remain on GNOME > 2.28 -- I'm not sure if that's an acceptable thing, however, and will check. As most switches these days appear as USB HID devices, through the use of physical interfaces such as the JoyCable, it is possible to get switch input events using PyGame Joystick support (though you have to poll). So in Jambu the following is used from the main GTK pump http://www.oatsoft.org/svn/jambu/trunk/src/lib/jambu/Switch.py I'm not clear how this compares with the fully integrated X events approaches that Willie mentions. My view is the sooner we have a viable switch solution on GNOME the better in order to be able to attract the users. Steve Lee _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
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