[ale] Linux for "normal" people?

[Scott Warfield]

I love that type of motivation.  I've explored the code a little and have
learned that a lot of caveats to include these type of features is beyond me
for the time being.

Perhaps making enough noise on my part as well as others who have strong
need for these features would encourage the development of them.

Might have to drop a message to kernel.org, and perhaps the KDE and gnome
teams, but for X, I really believe integrating with X itself in the more
logical choice.

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Scott Warfield
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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jay
Loden
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:42 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux for "normal" people?


I know nothing about sticky keys on linux, but if it helps any, I do know
that 
you can do reverse mouse buttons quite easily in KDE.  You go to the control

panel, Peripherals, Mouse, and there's an option to make it a "left-handed 
mouse" (switch buttons) and you can also control stuff like reversing the 
scroll wheel polarity and what have you. 

With sticky keys, if this doesnt exist on Linux yet, I'd think this is 
something you could get someone to code, because it would help other users 
who need that functionality. I for one would be willing to help track
someone 
down who would do the coding for it, and make enough noise that someone pays

attention.  (I'm not enough of a programmer to do it myself) 

Hope that helps some, 

-Jay

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 01:37 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> Scott Warfield wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the only reason that I do not use Linux as my desktop 
> > is the lack of true disability integration in many aspects of the 
> > system. Specifically I'm referring to Sticky keys and revearse mouse 
> > keys.  I have also yet to see speech recognition that compares to 
> > any of the Windows implementations.
>
> Scott, can you ellaborate on what these are?  That is 'sticky keys and 
> reverse mouse.'  Are these hardware or software?  What functionality 
> do they provide?
>
> Also, I've not done much research, but there is a company doing voice 
> recognition work for linux.  Check out:
>
> http://lumenvox.com/
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