Re: Interested in expanding Dasher for use with an IDE to program

Peter Korn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.accessibility.general
Organization Oracle Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christophe,

Perhaps you are confusing Dasher with OpenGazer...


Peter

On 6/5/2013 5:19 AM, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> Am Mi, 5.06.2013, 13:53 schrieb Piñeiro:
>> On 06/05/2013 10:18 AM, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am Di, 4.06.2013, 22:13 schrieb Patti Ordóñez Rozo:
>>>> I am very interested in extending Dasher to include programming
>>>> languages
>>>> to enable individuals with physical disabilities to efficiently use
>>>> IDEs
>>>> such as Eclipse. Is this possible? If so, any pointers for where I
>>>> should
>>>> begin looking?
>>> Even though Dasher is available under GPL version 2 and you can download
>>> the source code, it has not been released on a public project hosting
>>> site
>>> (GitHub, SourceForge and the like).
>> Sorry, but I think that you are wrong. Dasher is currently hosted at
>> gnome git repository:
>>
>> https://git.gnome.org/browse/dasher
> Funny, I completely missed that.
>
> Christophe
>
>
>>
>>> That is not because the developers did
>>> not want to release it that way, but because many open source projects
>>> simply never receive contributions from outsiders except for
>>> translations.
>>> If you want to contribute to the code, I recommend that you contact
>>> David
>>> Mackay at the University of Cambridge. See
>>> <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/Download.html> and
>>> <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/Contact.html>.
>> You can also contribute with Dasher using gnome tools, for example,
>> there are a dasher component on gnome bugzilla:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=dasher
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> --
>> Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias

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