Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> "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.
> 
Yes, the author of workrave told me this. In the end they didn't make it 
into 2.4 because they had to have a release within a week or so and were 
not able to manage that. I saw on the desktop-devel-list that they 
already wanted to call Gnome 2.4 "The caring desktop". Not bad from a 
marketing point I guess ;-)

Jaap