Hello Brian,
First of all, thanks for your reply. At 9:57 AM -0500 9/27/07, Brian Cameron wrote: >>Instead of making GDM launch a specific program, it could indicate >>what Assistive Technology to launch. >>GDM would for example only tell to start the onscreen keyboard, >>leaving it to a sort of "Preferred Application"-Setting to decide >>whether to start gok, onboard, xvkb,... > >One complication about this approach is that the GDM user does not have >currently use GConf where I think these settings are currently set. I >suppose we could make GDM depend on GConf to get these settings, but >is it worth adding a new dependency for this? The new D-Bus version >of GDM does use GConf, so perhaps this is a moot question. :) But >it probably makes sense to do this work in the D-Bus branch rather >than bothering to add GConf as a dependency in the current stable >version. Sorry if I did not say it explicitely in my previous email: my idea, if sensible, was aimed for the new D-Bus branch. I agree with you that it does not make sense to introduce completely new features to the current stable branch as it is going to be phased out in a not to distant future. >Well, GDM would need to have a program that talks to GConf to figure >out what the preferred applications are. The GDM GUI programs could >either do this directly, or there could be a helper program that the >GUI programs talk to in order to launch such programs. I think that these GUI programms wwwwshould not only be able read the preferred applications setting, it should also be able to change the settings. >>>If you also are interested in enhancing GDM to launch AT programs >>>in more novel ways (e.g. by directly integrating them into GDM), then >>>we should discuss. >> >>I looked for any standards on the Internet about how the different >>Assistive Technologies should be started, but I was not able to >>find something really useful yet. Now I wonder if any standards >>exists, and if they do exist, whether they are Desktop or even OS >>independent. > >I think historically, only gnopernicus, dasher, orca and GOK have >existed. I believe orca has pretty much replaced gnopernicus. So >there hasn't been much overlap until now that we have onscreen. In other words, if there is not much to choose from, a preferred applications setting will not make much sense... Anyway, as you said, first the effort should go into enabling Assistive Technology in the new branch. Have a nice day. Francesco _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
