[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#634847: ITP: xul-ext-dactyl -- keyboard-accessible user interfaces for XUL-based applications

[Michael Schutte]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Michael Schutte <michi at debian.org>

[Cc-ing pkg-mozext-maintainers, whom I’d like to join for packaging
this, and Vimperator maintainer Francois Marier]

* Package name    : dactyl
  Version         : 1.0~b6.1
  Upstream Author : Doug Kearns <dougkearns at gmail.com>,
                    Kris Maglione <maglione.k at gmail.com>,
                    Martin Stubenschrott <stubenschrott at vimperator.org>
* URL             : http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: JavaScript (XUL)
  Description     : keyboard-accessible user interfaces for XUL-based applications

The Dactyl project offers Vim-inspired, keyboard-accessible user
interfaces for Iceweasel/Firefox (Pentadactyl), Icedove/Thunderbird
(Teledactyl), and Songbird (Melodactyl).  It allows to navigate these
applications with sensible key bindings instead of the mouse.

Initially, only a xul-ext-pentadactyl binary will be provided, since the
other two extensions are still in a pre-alpha stage.

This is a fork of the Vimperator extension (which is already in Debian),
but as Vimperator is moving on [1] and Pentadactyl appears to retain its
“classic” appearance and behavior, it makes sense to offer this choice.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/wiki/Vimperator3DesignGoals

-- 
Michael Schutte                   | michi@{uiae.at,debian.org}
Innsbruck, Austria                | happily accepting encrypted mail
OpenPGP: 0x16fb 517b a866 c3f6 8f11 1485 f3e4 122f 1D8C 261A
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 490 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mozext-maintainers/attachments/20110720/c4bff06e/attachment.pgp>