Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Jonathan Blandford]

"Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm at redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:05:56PM +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> > >On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:48:30PM +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > >
> > >>I've been suffering from RSI quite badly some years ago, a.o. a program 
> > >>like workrave helped me controlling the problem. I think every desktop 
> > >>should include one even if it only is to prevent RSI.
> > >
> > >
> > >Menu -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Typing Break
> > >
> > >michaelkjohnson
> > I know this option but it's far to simple. AFAIK it doesn't adapt if you 
> > take a break your self. WorkRave really measures your activity and 
> > forces you to have small micro breaks if your mousing or typing. If you 
> > are reading it doesn't stop you.
> 
> So this, in opinion, would be a place to take up the discussion of
> enhancing GNOME's included support, rather than having lots of
> different tools that try, with varying amounts of success, to do
> the same job.

Workrave is more of an AT tool than the simple typing break that comes
with GNOME.  I believe there was discussion of finding a way to put it
in the 'Assistive Technologies' dialog in the past -- you could look
through the desktop-devel-list at gnome.org and
gnome-accessibility-list at gnome.org archives for more information.

It might be nice to ship it for FC2 as-is anyway, but we'd have to make
sure it doesn't have weird interaction with the current typing break.

Thanks,
-Jonathan