[ Bill Haneman ] > On Thu, 2006-08-0 > Qt and KDE can do what OpenOffice.org and Mozilla have done, which is > write to the ATK interface. The external libatk-bridge is then loaded > at runtime as a strictly soft dependency which would make KDE apps fully > interoperable with our existing full-features linux ATs.
Trolltech have tried to do this, and have run into obstacles because of the way glib is written. They have therefore decided to go directly for D-Bus. I am not familiar with the details, but I support their decision, because they are the ones doing the work and D-Bus has always been in our agreed long-term plan anyway. > No engineering resources from Qt/KDE would need to touch the > CORBA/Bonobo stuff at all, in order for this to work. The only > "undesirable" dependency would be glib, which is very well maintained > and documented. And libbonobo, and ORBit2, which is what I was referring to. > If it doesn't interoperate with AT-SPI, how can it "be" AT-SPI? Maybe we should rename the two versions then to prevent confusion. BG-AT-SPI for the Bonobo/glib-based version, and D-AT-SPI for the D-Bus version? Olaf -- Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility co-maintainer, open standards accessibility networker, Protestant theology student and webmaster of http://accessibility.kde.org/ and http://www.amen-online.de/ _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
