/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/11/13/#ubuntu-accessibility.txt

=== AlanChicken is now known as AlanBell
UndiFineDnice alan12:21
AlanBellnigelb: I need a picture of someone who could be Faisal15:22
AlanBellgot any friends who would be a model?15:38
charlie-tcaAlanBell, Pendulum : any hints for learning how to use dasher?15:42
AlanBellstart with it going slowly!15:46
charlie-tcahow/15:51
charlie-tcaHow do I get it to go to direct mode?15:51
AlanBellno way to do that from the gui, launch it with dasher -a15:52
AlanBelldasher -a direct15:52
charlie-tcaoh! Thanks15:52
charlie-tcaI got it going slowly, that didn't seem to help15:52
UndiFineDyou can select directmode in preferences15:53
UndiFineDnot sure how that works15:53
charlie-tcaI did that, but it doesn't seem to work15:53
AlanBellif you have it in direct mode you then need to give a window focus then with the mouse go back to the dasher window and start typing15:54
AlanBellif you have focus follows mouse that is probably going to be inconvenient15:54
PendulumUndiFineD: you can't on linux. at least you couldn't last I tried15:54
charlie-tcaOh, that too?15:55
Pendulumit might be easier to learn to use in non-drect mode15:55
Pendulum(I don't know because MacOS is where I learned to use it and it only has direct mode)15:56
AlanBellhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/faisal.pdf < very draft still15:56
Pendulumbtw, I will be in and out today as I'm going to a baby shower! :)15:57
UndiFineDoh that is nice Pendulum 15:59
UndiFineDdasher is .. strange15:59
UndiFineDbut fun to play with16:00
charlie-tcabut needed for some people16:00
charlie-tcaIt is a default accessibility app16:00
PendulumI <3 Dasher (at least when it works), but it takes a little getting used to16:00
Pendulumcharlie-tca: it is?16:00
UndiFineD:)16:00
charlie-tcayup16:00
Pendulumtbh, though, if you're like me and use it sometimes completely instead of typing, you pick it up quickly16:00
charlie-tcaI will learn it... Might be a l-l-l-long process, though16:01
AlanBellyou can get quite fast with it if you crank up the speed and know your alphabet well!16:01
PendulumI think about it like those games where you have to navigate something through a maze using your mouse16:02
AlanBellFaisal should use dasher a bit I think16:03
charlie-tcaIt is very much finding the right thing at the right time16:03
AlanBellbest way to learn dasher is to unplug your keyboard on a desktop and put it out of reach then spend all evening chatting on IRC16:04
Pendulumand not to stress about how long your taking16:05
Pendulumand not to look at the window you're inputting in and focus on dasher16:05
AlanBelland stay calm when your keyboard segfaults16:05
Pendulumhaha16:05
charlie-tcaGreat idea! I will give that a try, except I broke it now16:06
Pendulumunless it segfaults in under a minute repeatedly. then you get mad and file a bug16:06
charlie-tcalol16:06
Pendulumoh, and not to work about the gtk errors that come up in terminal when you launch direct mode16:06
Pendulums/work/worry16:06
Pendulumcharlie-tca: how'd you break it?16:06
charlie-tcayeah, I got that one already. A lot of apps throw those16:06
charlie-tcait won't do anything :-)16:06
charlie-tcaIt just sits with all them letters scrunched up in a column16:07
* charlie-tca thinks scrunched is the right word for that16:07
UndiFineDI just dasdhered "Dasher is a difficult accessibility program which is required to be used by some of us" and i cannot even paste it into xchat16:07
Pendulumcharlie-tca: move your mouse towards the letters?16:08
charlie-tcatried that16:08
Pendulumhuh16:08
charlie-tcamove the mouse all over. Broke it good16:08
Pendulumwhat makes me sad about dasher is that it's open source, has generally been developed by linux geeks, and it's most stable on windows :(16:09
charlie-tcaGot to have the users to keep motivated16:09
Pendulumyeah16:09
UndiFineDhow many clipboards are there ?16:10
charlie-tcahuh?16:10
charlie-tcaone that I know of16:10
PendulumI don't use xchat so I don't know the issues there16:10
UndiFineDso whay could i not paste into xchat ?16:10
Pendulumi've never had a problem pasting or writing directly in irssi16:10
charlie-tcacopy / paste to xchat requires keyboard to use Ctrl+v16:10
charlie-tcadoesn't it?16:11
Pendulumcharlie-tca: can you not right click and paste?16:11
vishcharlie-tca: also middle click works16:11
charlie-tcawell, sounds like I don't know after all16:12
charlie-tcaMaybe I just use the keyboard because it is easier for me to hit things16:12
vishiirc, there are 2 clipboards , the middle click one is the X one and the other is whatever..16:12
* Pendulum gets x-chat to try to test16:13
Pendulumeven though dasher is horrible with this mouse :(16:13
charlie-tcaWhat mouse do you normally use?16:14
AlanBellwonder if Dasher would be good with multitouch devices like the magic trackpad16:14
Pendulumcharlie-tca: i use it on linux on my mac16:15
Pendulumso the mac trackpad16:15
Pendulumbut i'm on my mini16:15
Pendulumwhich has a horrid trackpad16:15
PendulumAlanBell: it's lovely on my MBP trackpad so I'd guess yes16:15
charlie-tcaI would think it should work nicely with that too16:17
charlie-tcaI use the logitech trackball, and it is smooth16:17
AlanBellFaisal now uses Dasher16:18
charlie-tcaFaisal now fights with dasher?16:19
pendulum|testtesting to see if right click works for paste in x-chat 16:21
pendulum|testit does, but the real problem is the lack of a mouse way enter in x-chat (so really will only work in direct mode)16:22
Pendulumbrb, need to watch Ann Widdecombe do the pasodoble16:23
Pendulumsorry, just felt that was the one time in my life i'd ever be able to say that ;-)16:26
charlie-tcaheh, good a reason as any16:27
Pendulumcharlie-tca: Anne Widdecombe is a British politician who is on Strictly Come Dancing this season. She is very entertaining and it's worse than watching my grandmother dance in terms of ability16:29
charlie-tcaNeat! We need some entertainment in our lives16:29
Pendulumyes16:29
PendulumI prefer Strictly to Dancing with the Stars (although I'm watching Dancing with the Stars this season, too) and i'm catching up because I got behind at UDS16:30
AlanBellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2snk9HhLp016:32
PendulumAlanBell: is that a youtube of anne widdecombe dancing?16:33
AlanBellit is of anne widdecombe certainly. Dancing . . . not so sure about that16:33
Pendulumwell "dancing"16:33
PendulumAlanBell: btw, if you think that's bad, you should have seen her salsa16:37
AlanBellthe girls do watch strictly and drag me in for the widdecombe dances16:39
Pendulumhaha16:39
AlanBellcoz I like politics :)16:40
Pendulumlol16:40
Pendulumi am loving Pamela Stevenson16:40
AlanBellhow is your dancing going Pendulum 16:49
Pendulumi haven't danced since uds :(16:49
Pendulumdunno if i'll try to schedule for this coming week or not16:50
AlanBelldid you dance at UDS?16:50
Pendulumnot ballroom16:50
Pendulumi did dance at the friday party16:50
charlie-tcahm, have to debug xubuntu and find why dasher won't work in direct mode for it17:42
charlie-tcafirst though, go shopping17:43
charlie-tcaDasher in xchat.20:35
charlie-tcain Xubuntu20:36
AlanBellhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/faisal.pdf coming on a bit now20:37
charlie-tcathis not easy 20:37
charlie-tcaApparently you must first start /usr/lib/at-spi-registryd in Xubuntu to use dasher direct mode20:38
=== JanC_ is now known as JanC
PendulumAlanBell: faisal looks good so far23:09
Pendulumi'll look in more detail tomorrow, but I wanted to let you know I had started looking at it :)23:10
AlanBell:)23:29

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