Hi,
first of all i want to make clear that i don't want to be the person who
blocks any new project. But i want to raise a little bit more awareness
and that we should analyze the project ideas a little bit more before we
accept it. The potential, the outlook and further plans etc.
OOmouse wrote:
Dear OpenOffice.org Community
First, I would like to apologize for any annoyance, irritation, or
embarrassment the recent media attention to the "OpenOfficeMouse" has
caused. It was never my intention to mislead anyone or imply that the
OpenOffice.org Community was producing hardware. In the game industry,
from which I hail, it is quite common for mice to be branded with
specific game software, so it simply never occurred to me that any such
confusion was possible. Second, I would like to express my appreciation
for the professional and sensitive way in which John McCreesh, Florian
Effenberger, and especially Louis Suarez-Potts, dealt with what could
have easily been an unpleasant problem and quickly defused it in a
positive and effective manner. Third, I would like to ask for your
support for establishing the "OpenOfficeMouse" Software Project as an
OpenOffice.org Incubator project.
If the software was nothing more than a basic mouse utility, I would not
make this request. Juergen Schmidt is correct in concluding that a
piece of hardware with flexible configuration options is of very little
utility to the project. However, I suggest that the *software* we have
written to allow for maximum flexibility in customizing the mouse
buttons should not necessarily be dismissed as a mere marketing
strategy, because its keybinding capabilities can be readily put to use
in a wide variety of input devices that are not limited to mice, let
alone our mouse. For example, it could be combined with voice
recognition software to permit the same flexible configuration options
enjoyed by the mouse users to people who cannot use mice or keyboards
due to physical handicaps. Alternatively, it should not be difficult to
modify it in order to attach sounds to specific OpenOffice.org functions
for those who cannot see the screen since we already have built-in sound
alerts that are triggered by switches between one profile and another.
All the things you have described here are probably correct and of
course useful. But i still don't see any specifics for OpenOffice.org.
Everything you have described is valid for any application and if you
want to make it open source feel free to create a SourceForge or Google
Code project. I am still not convinced.
Juergen
Furthermore, the high level of interest we have seen from people
volunteering to produce a variety of application-specific profiles, many
of which were proposed for applications we had never heard of, suggests
that such a *software* project might have the potential of expanding
into a trans-application, device-agnostic interface under the aegis of
OpenOffice.org.
Thank you,
Theo aka OOmouse
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