On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 11:33, Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote: > 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.
This is entirely false, and I despair at hearing this sort of statement. I (and I am indeed the sole maintainer of the AT-SPI core infrastructure) have made great efforts over the past years to preserve interoperability reduce AT-SPI dependencies (for instance, removing many Bonobo dependencies) SPECIFICALLY IN ORDER TO MAKE IT MORE PALATABLE TO KDE. I regret the misunderstanding, but I must emphatically state that I have been working to achieve a mutually agreeable solution. Interoperability with KDE has been in the forefront of my mind when developing AT-SPI since the first "Linux Accessibility Working Group" meeting in Los Angeles CA over four years ago. I have spent literally hundreds of hours talking, emailing, and coding towards this end. In fact my concerns about the proposed DBUS/AT-SPI work now going on in KDE are primarily interoperability concerns; the current work would break interoperability with Gnome, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Thunderbird, whereas my suggestion to write to ATK would preserve interoperability and still allow for migration to a DBUS-based technology if and when DBUS is ready for the job, and if motivated resources are found to do the migration work. Bill _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
