[ Samuel Thibault ] > > > I'm just wondering: can't any corba implementation (other than ORBit, > > > omniORB or TAO for instance) be used by Qt instead ?
We used TAO for KDE1 and abandoned it. Their website says: "Whereas compliance with OMG specifications is a design goal of TAO, it is also a continuing pursuit." This sounds similar to ORBit2 having implemented a "subset" (according to Michael Meeks) of the OMG spec. omniORB does not compile on all platforms we are targeting for KDE applications and KDE-based assistive technologies (e.g. FreeBSD). D-Bus support will be part of Qt 4.2 and be easily available on all our target platforms. > But less than using ORBit (and bare with bonobo dependency), right? That > might meet everyone's need: keep at-spi in a CORBA protocol, so that > gnome and Qt accessibility work together, but avoid ORBit dependencies. As I said, Trolltech is writing the bridge, and I accept the rule "Those who do the work decide". Besides, the GNOME accessibility team has been arguing against every single change to AT-SPI that would make interoperability with Qt and KDE easier on thegrounds that it would not benefit their end users. I simply stopped listening to this line of argumentation. > > It would also be no solution for the libbonobo dependency. > > I don't understand this. Doesn't Qt using another CORBA implementation > would let it be free from bonobo? No, bonobo activation would still be used for dealing with the AT-SPI registry, and the GNOME Accessibility team have made it clear that they do not plan to change it in the CORBA-based version. This means going directly for D-Bus is a better approach. Also, you would still have ORBit2 etc as runtime dependencies because of the at-spi registry. This only a problem for the suggestion to push the bonobo-based AT-SPI into the LSB, because the LSB only accepts maintained code. 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
