Hello,
I would like to inform you about the mousetweaks specification created by Henrik Nilsen Omma in launchpad. I fleshed it out in the corresponding wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/MouseTweaks?action=show At the moment, it contains 4 mousetweaks: 1: accessing the contextual menu by a click&hold of the left mouse button (usually it is done with a right click) 2: dwell clicking: i. e.: software to emulate the various mouse clicks without the user having to press any button 3: tremor reduction: smoothing the pointer movement of people that have a trembling hand 4: mouse gesture: triggering commands (actions) on the computer by doing determined gestures with the pointer Unfortunately, I do not have the know-how to do the implementation; in fact, as you can see, the implementation part in the specification is nearly empty. There is no point in trying to classify the mousetweaks: For example, there is probably only a small userbase (people that are able to move the pointer but that are not able to click any button) for the mousetweak #2, but as long as the functionality of mousetweak #2 is not available in Ubuntu, any person of that specific userbase will not be able to become an Ubuntu-user. But the mousetweaks are not exclusively accessibility related: for example the functions of mousetweak #4 are particularly appreciated by some powerusers; there is even a thread in the forums from people that were used to mouse gestures in Windows and are missing it in gnome: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2012107 But I suppose that this list is not the place to discuss the popularity or userbase of the different softwares... (or am I wrong?) I hope that the mousetweaks specification will find some interest and I welcome any help, suggestion, remark, correction, addition to improve the specification and to get it on its way to an implementation. Thanks in advance. Francesco Fumanti PS: I have also opened a thread in the Accessibility Forum about the mousetweaks specification to also inform people about it that do not use this mailing list: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2012703 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
