Hi Francesco,
thanks for the email, that was informative and timely.
1)
The discussions around different options came about because of a
suggestion from the upstream Gnome accessibility team that we should
consider using the 'official' gnome on-screen keyboard which is now
Caribou. So far I have been unable to install caribou and I am not sure
what it's good features are really. I think there should be one keyboard
that serves as an accessibility tool, is the keyboard for tablets and
touchscreens (including multitouch), looks good and can be used for
innovative layouts such as the steno chording layout. One current
challenge is getting the keyboard to type into the unity-3d interface
(works fine in unity-2d) and this is mostly a unity issue although I
wouldn't discount the possibility that some integration might need to
touch the keyboard (things like the keyboard not zooming in and out with
compiz zoom).
2)
> Does this mean that LightDM is going to replace GDM?
no, it means the possibility is going to be discussed at UDS. A lot of
things get discussed and sometimes we decide not to do them - or maybe
decide to revisit the possibility some releases later.
3)
that is a good point and some interesting suggestions, we already know
it is too hard to start onboard without the use of a hard keyboard, it
would be ideal if dwelling could be turned on without clicking. (still
not quite as bad as asking people to press space when they see the icon
at the start of the installer to get to the screen reader install)
Alan.
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