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The following is our proposed plan for the continued development of the LSR core and its extensions. This page is a living document. Plans for versions beyond the one currently in development are always subject to change based on available resources, developer interests, and project vision.
Please inform us of any feature you would like to implement, whether it is or is not listed below. Send your comments to lsr-list@gnome.org.
Short term
0.4.0 release
- Solid Perk development framework
Numerous TaskTools
All monitors (Event, Task, IO)
Model-based settings dialogs (Perks and built-in)
Perk tutorial
Polished UI and settings dialog
Public UI specification
Improved UI reporting (table column headers, trees, text selection, indices, etc.)
Magnifier device support
Braille support
Improved support for Firefox documents
0.5.0 release
- More Firefox document browsing support
- Braille and magnifier UI improvements
0.6.0 release
0.7.0 release
0.8.0 release
Long term
- Device developer's guide
- Model-based help dialogs
- Model-based device and per Perk settings dialogs
Scripts for OpenOffice, Eclipse
- Scripts for LSR script development
- Speech callbacks with POR tracking
- POR bookmarks
- User and Perk writer guides
- ALSA support in pyibmtts?
- Interoperability with emacspeak, speakup?
Completed
0.3.0 release
- Improved support for widgets
Adapter improvements to handle trees, tables, combo boxes, sliders better
Additional Task.Tools for improved programmatic access to desktop components
IOMonitor for device logging
User LSR settings presistence
CliqueAudio device (experimental)
Initial test plan
DDC presentation and screencast
GNOME summit screencast
DECtalk and SpeechDispatcher support
Initial support for browsing Firefox documents
- Model-based settings dialog (DONE)
- Proof-of-concept scripts for purposes other than accessibility for visual impairments (see GNOME summit screencast, (./))
0.2.1 release
Post GaimPerk tutorial
Output style objects to support arbitrary I/O devices and capabitilities
Requisite changes to TaskTools
Requisite changes to DeviceManager
Requisite changes to device interfaces
0.2.0 release
GainPerk tutorial draft
Direct IBM TTS wrapper
Support for foreground versus background events
State/property/hierarchy events
Metadata model for generating settings chooser
Metacity Perk for Alt-Tab application switching and Ctrl-Atl-Arrows desktop switching
Improvements to gaim Perk (background messages, status changes)
Initial support for Firefox chrome and bug identification
Migration to gnome.org