Re: Workrave and XP magnifier.

Hello Hugh,

After re-reading your e-mail and testing the magnifier, I think it's unlikely we will be incorporating an enhancement to make Workrave more accessible when using that tool.

I'm looking into a solution for the issue where Workrave break windows are not controllable via keyboard.

As Kees-Jan suggested in an earlier e-mail this afternoon, you can suspend Workrave on the computer you support by right-clicking its icon and choosing Mode > Suspended. The owner can later enable Workrave by changing the mode from 'Suspended' to 'Normal'.

To Hugh and the rest of the mailing list,
Workrave uses a graphical user interface (GTK+) which is DPI aware, however Workrave itself may not be fully taking advantage of this (in Windows). For example, if you have a higher-than-normal font DPI (eg 120) Workrave should scale its windows. I haven't tested this recently. I had mixed results in Windows Server 2003 and XP some time ago. If there is any improvement in scaling forthcoming on Windows it will probably be better DPI awareness, and it will probably be due to improvements in GTK+ rather than Workrave itself.

Thanks,

Ray

--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Hugh Sasse <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Hugh Sasse <[email protected]>
Subject: [Workrave-user] Workrave and XP magnifier.
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 5:53 AM

Workrave has been imaged onto a machine I support.  I have to use
the Windows magnifier (which you can bring up with <Windows-R> then
type magnify<return>, when it comes up press return to get rid of
the message about access software, <up-arrow> a few times to
increase the magnification to about 6, then <return> to minimize the
magnifier options window) in order to work with that display.

When Workrave brings up the pre-break warning dialogue, it appears
over the magnifier window, and it is thus not magnified.  Trying to
move the mouse over the window in order to see its contents results
in the window moving to the bottom of the screen.  Moving the mouse
to the window's new position results on it moving back to the top of
the screen.  How is one supposed to see the contents of this window
when using the magnifier?

When the break dialogue comes up, there are no keyboard shortcuts
for it.  There is also no help facility in it to find out what it
will do once the progress bar reaches the end.  So far I have
managed to skip or postpone the thing before that happens.  Given
that I can't see the mouse pointer on the screen without the
magnification, it is extremely difficult to navigate to wherever
this window comes up at short notice.

I later noticed a really small window on the desktop, with a coffee
cup icon and a time (3:50 I think) in an entry box next to it, and a
couple of similar boxes below.  I think this is part of the same
program.  It is not possible to resize this window in order to see
the program name properly on the title bar, but it does begin with
"Wo".  It is not possible to see from the exposed part of the window
whether the times are hours:minutes, or minutes:seconds.  There seem
to be no tooltips to say what the icons are for, and no help facility.

Someone pointed out a very small sheep icon on the taskbar, but the
tooltips for that don't mention the program name, only talking about
micro-breaks.

Only by searching for micro-breaks using Google did I find out what
this program might be, and thus find that workrave is installed on
here.

Is anyone able to reproduce this behaviour?
Are there any configuration files/tools to make this program more
accessible?

        Thank you,
        Hugh

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