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List:       kde-accessibility
Subject:    Re: [Kde-accessibility] RSI tools
From:       Gunnar Schmi Dt <gunnar () schmi-dt ! de>
Date:       2003-09-28 10:27:29
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Hello Phil,

On Friday 26 September 2003 22:33, Phil wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if someone is interested in having a nice RSI prevention
> tool for the KDE usability project.
>
Well, I suppose you wanted to say "accessibility project" instead of
"usability project"?

> I know some persons who currently use Workgrave for RSI
> recovery/prevention. But since this is a Gnome app. it is on some
> distribhutions difficult to install and is certainly not ideal if you are a
> KDE only guy...
>
> When you look on their website they seem to be looking for persons who
> might be interested in porting the code to KDE?
> (http://www.workrave.org/dev/) It even seems not to be to difficult.
>
If I saw it correctly on their web site, Workgrave reminds the user to do
enough breaks. This would be a good addition to the KMouseTool application
(which is part of the kdeaccessibility module).

According to the amount of work that is needed for such a porting I would be
carefull as there might be more work to do than the original authors thought:
As Workgrave is a GNOME application I expect the core to use glib. For a port
to KDE this would need to be changed (at least if the port is made for an
inclusion into the kdeaccessibility module). However, I am only guessing as I
do not know their code.

> Is anyone intersted in having a look at the portability of this superb
> program? Unfortunately I'm not a programmer myself , but I would certainly
> want to help in any way I could....
>
Well, I currently don't have enough time to do the porting. If someone else
wants to do it, I would like to see it included into the kdeaccessibility
module (after KDE 3.2 is out) if the person(s) who port the application and
the original authors agree.

Gunnar Schmi Dt
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Co-maintainer of the KDE Accessibility Project
Maintainer of the kdeaccessibility package
http://accessibility.kde.org/
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