From: David Bolter (david.bolter@utoronto.ca)
Date: 04/08/03
Thanks Rodd.
I'm not sure about gnopernicus's tarball status. I imagine the Baum folks could answer this.
cheers,
David
Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>Simon, David and Bill,
>
>Yeah, this is great news. I'm looking forward to building gok as part
>of garnome so that I can show people what it is and how it works (and to
>take a look myself as I don't have a lot of time to spend grabbing from
>cvs to build)
>
>Any idea whether gnopernicus might also be tarballed for inclusion?
>
>
>Rodd
>
>On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 00:50, Bill Haneman wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Simon/David:
>>
>>Thanks for this, it's great!
>>
>>I uploaded this tarball to ftp.gnome.org's tarball archive so that it
>>can be included in the 2.3.0.1 (unstable) release.
>>
>>If you don't want it included in the release, please email Jeff Waugh
>>about it: jdub@perkypants.org; I know Jeff and some others were keen on
>>getting GOK into the 2.3 developer snapshot series.
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 22:35, Simon Bates wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The GOK team is very pleased to announce the availability of GOK 0.7.0
>>>
>>>Please note that this is an unstable release and that GOK may crash or
>>>behave unexpectedly. With this in mind we would like to thank you very
>>>much for your interest in GOK and hope very much that you find it
>>>useful.
>>>
>>>Getting GOK
>>>===========
>>>
>>>GOK 0.7.0 is now available for download from:
>>>
>>>http://gok.ca/gok-0.7.0.tar.gz
>>>
>>>You can find more information about GOK such as documentation and slides
>>>from presentations that we have given on the GOK website at:
>>>
>>>http://www.gok.ca
>>>
>>>Overview
>>>========
>>>
>>>The GNOME On-screen Keyboard (GOK) is a dynamic on-screen keyboard for
>>>UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It features Direct Selection,
>>>Dwell Selection, Automatic Scanning and Inverse Scanning access methods
>>>and includes word completion.
>>>
>>>GOK includes an alphanumeric keyboard and a keyboard for launching
>>>applications. Keyboards are specified in XML enabling existing
>>>keyboards to be modified and new keyboards to be created. The access
>>>methods are also specified in XML providing the ability to modify
>>>existing access methods and create new ones.
>>>
>>>GOK is not limited to presenting keyboards that have been designed by
>>>hand and is able to dynamically create keyboards so that it can adapt to
>>>the user's current situation. GOK is able to redisplay components of
>>>the user interfaces of running applications directly within GOK as
>>>keyboards. This provides efficient access to elements of the user
>>>interface, removing the need to navigate the interface indirectly though
>>>keyboard accelerators. GOK supports the redisplay of application menus
>>>and toolbars. GOK contains a window activator keyboard that lists the
>>>current windows on the desktop and provides the ability to switch
>>>between them.
>>>
>>>Users have the option of setting key width, height, and spacing as well
>>>as visual and auditory feedback on highlighting and selection.
>>>
>>>Best wishes,
>>>The GOK Team.
>>>_______________________________________________
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>>>gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org
>>>http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
>>>
>>>
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