Hi Francesco: You're welcome! Thanks for your work on MouseTweaks. :-)
The module proposing guidelines are here, with the main timeframes being listed under the "Decision Making" section: http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleProposing (the 2.22 schedule is here: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyone). It looks like Gerd is on top of a fair amount of this, and I suspect one bottleneck right now is getting someone set up with a GNOME SVN account and an SVN home for the source. Information about GNOME SVN can be found here: http://svn.gnome.org/. For development purposes, I think the main thing you need to do is track down the people who've commented on your proposal (the thread starts with http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00489.html) and work to come to a resolution with them. If you need help with the HIG work, I can ask one of our friendly Sun folks if they have time to take a look. Will Francesco Fumanti wrote: > Hello, > > > First of all, I would like to thanks all the people that participated > in the discussion of MouseTweaks during the accessibility summit, and > especially those that made it possible to have it demoed during that > event. > > > At 2:24 PM -0400 10/8/07, Willie Walker wrote: >> We discussed MouseTweaks at the summit at think it definitely looks >> like it provides great functionality for the intended users. Overall, >> we support the module proposal, though we also recommend working with >> the GNOME Usablity folks (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/) >> on any user interface improvements that would make its configuration >> and use better for the target user base. When working with them, I >> think it will be very important to remind them who the target users >> are and what the typical user interaction model will be. > > Do I get it right? Does the fact, that you support the module > proposal, mean that the aim is to ship it with the next GNOME release > (GNOME 2.22)? > > If so, could you please tell me what are the steps that MouseTweaks > will have to do in order to get it into GNOME, and especially the date > limits for each step? (Telling me where I can find that information > may also suffice.) > > > I will very soon begin the discussion with the people of GUP in order > to get a user interface that corresponds more to the HIG of GNOME. > > But do we have to host MouseTweaks on GNOME's site to get it shipped > with GNOME? > > What about the versioning scheme? Currently MouseTweaks is at version > 0.2.2. Do we have to adapt it to the GNOME version; in other words > change it to mousetweaks-2.21.n? > > Do we have to submit the source to a build system in some determined > format? > > > Sorry if my questions may be a bit basic, but I am new to this. > > > >> As an aside, did you give consideration to making the mouse handling >> portions of this an X Server Extension? The reason I ask is that >> when developing AccessX many years ago, we originally did it as a >> client instead of an extension. At the time, we were encouraged to >> merge with the XKB Server Extension. We did that, and the result is >> that AccessX functionality pretty much ubiquitous now (yeah!). Times >> were different back then, however. Today, it seems like getting an X >> Server Extension accepted and deployed might be more arduous and take >> a bit longer. So, if MouseTweaks works great as a client-only >> solution, then perhaps the server extension idea is not that important. > > Yes, the ideal would have been to implement it directly into X and I > have been told that this was also adressed. But it has been decided to > develop it as a client mainly for two reasons: > - the development took place as a GSoC 2007 project for ubuntu and it > was the more direct way to get to the users > - the developer (who will continue to do the necessary coding) did not > have the necessary knowledge to develop it as an X server extension. > (to be complete, nor do I) > > > Of course, if some day, the fonctionalities provided by mousetweaks > will be available directly from X, that would probably be better as > they would be "pretty much ubiquitous". (to quote your words ;) ) > > > Cheers > > Francesco > > > > _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
