Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 at 9:43 AM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org, 
> yandros@gmail.com, john@yates-sheets.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
> * Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2020-12-18 09:00]:
> > Dear Richard,
> >
> > It is difficult to use a mouse clicking tool to perform the
> > keysequence on a virtual keyboard.  When using a mouse clicking tool
> > with a virtual keyboard, the number of presses that are saved, stop
> > being a tiny fraction.  It is then the keybinding approach that gets
> > in the way.
>
> To give you more insights from me as user, I do use toolbar, sometimes
> not. In general it does not disturb me neither I see it. It is useful
> as one level of accessible user interface. It offers similar to menu
> items specific functions by only using the mouse and a click and that
> is great.
>
> Emacs with toolbar is on a level more accessible.
>
> Toolbar is occupying only about one third of linear space on my screen
> and in my opinion it should be full of functions such as:
>
> - new frame
> - bookmarks list
> - text properties such as justification full, centering
> - Emacs packages
> - report emacs bug
> - spell checking
> - version control check in/out
> - calendar
> - calculator
> - send email
> - then help functions like About Emacs or manual
>
> Including a rich toolbar makes options accessible more to users to
> discover more useful features of Emacs.
>
> Including more accessibility features would help that Emacs become
> useful for more people.

Have suggested that the toolbar items could be user defined as it is
for keybindings.

> Gestures would be another useful accessibility feature. But I think it
> exists already, I just forgot is it a built-in package. Then user
> could move mouse in some direction as specified to launch some Emacs
> commands. This would help on touch screen as well.
>
> Accessibility on one level more would be speech recognition where user
> activates it by saying "M-x" "find file" or "M-x" "mail" to activate
> features.
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