Mousetweaks' Page
What is Mousetweaks
Mousetweaks is an Accessibility Software whose developement started as a GSoC 2007 project under Ubuntu and is part of GNOME since GNOME 2.22. It brings additional fonctionalities to the pointer that allow a user to:
- open the contextual menu by clicking and holding the left mousebutton; it is for example useful for users that can manipulate only one button
- perform the 4 click types (left click, double click, drag click and right click) by software; it is for example useful for users that are not able to manipulate any button
- to lock the pointer temporarily into an area on the screen; it is for example useful for people that have to use their pointing hardware not only for the computer
I would suggest that you watch the video (53 MB) hosted on Launchpad. It should illustrate what mousetweaks is about.
What are the plans for GNOME 2.24 ?
- Add a "Restore single click" option to dwelling so that the user can choose to not have the single click type restored after performing a click of a different type.
- Provide a quicker way to en/disable dwelling.
- Add visual feedback for elapsed time to dwell click and to the simulated secondary click.
- Rework cli options to include all possible options.
- Use the glib bindings of dbus (internal change).
- Move the "motion Treshold" slider to a place showing that it is effective for both: the dwell click and the simulated secondary click.
Related Pages
Mousetweaks' tarballs download
Mousetweaks' previous hosting site; it is now hosted on this site and the source code is on GNOME SVN.
Mousetweaks' module proposal; the module is part of GNOME since GNOME 2.22.
Mousetweaks' usability page; the usability work is finished and the features are located in the new Accessibility tab of the mouse control panel.
Mousetweaks' original specifications; they actual implementation differs from it; for example the mouse gestures feature is completely missing as it would probably be better suited in a separate application.
Maintainers
Is there something that is really missing in our infrastructure or platform that would help you?
- There is no API to add and remove applets from the panel.
