Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-31 Thread Cesar Mauri
Hi, To integrate this feature properly in Gnome and make users feels like it's truly a part of it, I feel like the application would need to be split in several UI components connected in the right places in the Gnome UI and a service which would read to the webcam and do the head tracking.

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-31 Thread Cesar Mauri
Hi, I think that this raises an important point about inclusion of accessibility features: they are often very innovative, and they enhance the experiences of average users. For example, the on-screen keyboard can be adapted for use on touch-screen devices (at least this is my understanding

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-28 Thread meg ford
Hi, I think that this raises an important point about inclusion of accessibility features: they are often very innovative, and they enhance the experiences of average users. For example, the on-screen keyboard can be adapted for use on touch-screen devices (at least this is my

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-27 Thread meg ford
Hi, I think we are missing the important bit here. Tracking your head with a webcam to drive a mouse results in a bad experience. It doesn't work even remotely well. Some users already find this feature/application really useful. Someone will, in the future, figure out how to do this

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-26 Thread Piñeiro
On 10/25/2011 03:56 PM, Jan Jokela wrote: I think we are missing the important bit here. Tracking your head with a webcam to drive a mouse results in a bad experience. It doesn't work even remotely well. Some users already find this feature/application really useful. Someone will, in the

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-25 Thread Cesar Mauri
Hi, The application provides that UI (here [1][2] for some screenshots) in order to: * Configure the application (on the screenshot the Configuration dialog) I am not a designer but I would somehow wonder if they would consider this a good user-interface design. Those screenshots are

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-25 Thread Olivier Le Thanh Duong
To give my 2cents and recenter the discussion a bit since I think it would be a nice feature to have in Gnome3 (but keep in mind that's just my opinion from informations I gleaned from the eViacam website and that I'm not volunteering to do any works on this) As I see it right now the problem is

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-24 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! The application provides that UI (here [1][2] for some screenshots) in order to: * Configure the application (on the screenshot the Configuration dialog) I am not a designer but I would somehow wonder if they would consider this a good user-interface design. * A main window showing

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-23 Thread Stefan Sauer
On 10/21/2011 06:28 PM, Piñeiro wrote: Description === Some physically impaired users are not able to use the mouse, so an alternative input system is required. web-cams are a really common and cheap device these days (most of modern laptops include it), so one option is use a webcam to

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Biebl
2011/10/22 Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com: On 21 October 2011 17:28, Piñeiro apinhe...@igalia.com wrote:  * Look and feel: some people could not agree with current interface [2]. This shouldn't be a blocker thought. This feature proposal would include the proposal of wxWidgets as a

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-22 Thread Richard Hughes
On 21 October 2011 17:28, Piñeiro apinhe...@igalia.com wrote:  * Repositories: right now it is on sourceforge. This shouldn't be a blocker thought. I'm pretty sure it needs to be on git.gnome.org  * Look and feel: some people could not agree with current interface [2]. This shouldn't be a

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-22 Thread Juanjo Marín
- Mensaje original - De: Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com Para: Piñeiro apinhe...@igalia.com CC: Cesar Mauri ce...@crea-si.com; desktop-devel-list@gnome.org Enviado: sábado 22 de octubre de 2011 11:47 Asunto: Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost

Re: Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-22 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Piñeiro apinhe...@igalia.com wrote: And finally, the main concern could be about the graphical toolkit. eViacam uses wxWidgets [3][4], in order to ensure a native look and feel on both Windows and Linux systems. wxGTK is the most common wxWidgets port,

Feature proposal: Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam

2011-10-21 Thread Piñeiro
Description === Some physically impaired users are not able to use the mouse, so an alternative input system is required. web-cams are a really common and cheap device these days (most of modern laptops include it), so one option is use a webcam to track the motion of any object visible by