Test gnome-mag packages available.

[Jason Grieves]

Hi,

Those are some of the limitations of the gnome-mag package.

1) the settings window often gets hidden under the magnification window,
might want to close gnome-mag and see if it is there.  Also magnifier can be
invoked from the command line with magnifier.  magnifier --help should
discuss all parameters.

2) sounds like a bug?  Can you get a screenshot?

3) you need to bring in another screen for gnome-mag to correctly utilize
the full magnification ability.  This can be accomplished through a dummy
screen driver or an extra vid card.  

I've had the chance to continue working on my gnome-mag review/guide.  I'm
up to like 4-5 pages now.

Jason Grieves

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Henrik
Nilsen Omma
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:26 AM
To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Test gnome-mag packages available.

Luke Yelavich wrote:
> Hi all
> I have made test gnome-mag packages available, with XDamage and XFixes 
> extensions properly included and. Please test this, as it would be good 
> to have a smoother running magnifier in split and full screen modes.
>   
Cool!

It installs and runs well for me. It seems responsive enough, though I 
don't have much experience with magnifiers. There are also some issues:

1. I don't get a gnopernicus settings window so I can't change settings.

2. The magnification window only fills part of the screen. If you cut 
the screen in 8 sections, 4 wide and 2 high, my magnifier appears in the 
top row, second column. I have a wide screen display though, so that 
might be the cause.

3. It doesn't magnify stuff that is hidden under the magnification area.

Other than that, it seems to track the cursor quite well. I'm running 
i386 dapper on an AMD64 system.

- Henrik

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