Re: D-Bus replacement for AT-SPI Accessibility

2009-02-18 Thread Willie Walker
SPI_ methodsAccessible* methods dasher 5 9 mousetweaks 7 22 gok 15 78 libcspi 29 230 A subset approach makes a lot of sense. I also wonder, however, if just doing directly

Re: D-Bus replacement for AT-SPI Accessibility

2009-02-18 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: The ditching of Bonobo goes beyond AT-SPI. It also has an impact on gnome-speech and gnome-mag. This is a fair amount of work to pull off and we currently have a dearth of resources to do the work. We're not at the "uh oh, we're completely screwed" point yet, however. The good thin

Re: D-Bus replacement for AT-SPI Accessibility

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 17:27 +, Mark Doffman wrote: > When moving to D-Bus AT-SPI how amenable are people to killing the Cspi > library? (This is a nasty one. It would require major changes to GOK) Not volunteering of course ;-) but wouldn't it make more sense to work out what proporti

Re: D-Bus replacement for AT-SPI Accessibility

2009-02-17 Thread Andre Klapper
CC'ing gnome-accessibility-list. This is a must-fix for GNOME 2.30/3.0 as ORBit and Bonobo will be removed (as already written). It would be great if this could be discussed in the a11y community and if you (plural) could come up with a plan (technical + schedule) in the next weeks (before 2.27.1

Re: D-Bus replacement for AT-SPI Accessibility

2009-02-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:27:02PM +, Mark Doffman wrote: > How important is the removal of ORBit / Bonobo to Gnome plans? We'd like nothing to use it anymore by 2.30. If things have to change to make it happen, that should be acceptable (with the change of 2.30 --> 3.x). -- Regards, Olav __

Re: D-Bus replacement for AT-SPI Accessibility

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Korn
Mark, Thank you for all of your work (and your continuing work) in this area. In addition to the list you enumerate below, we should also include on the to-do list: - modifying the Java to AT-SPI bridge which uses CORBA - validation against other AT / AT tools which use AT-SPI in one form or

D-Bus replacement for AT-SPI Accessibility

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Doffman
Hello everyone, For a long while now I have been working on a D-Bus version of the Gnome accessibility framework, AT-SPI. The project has taken longer than expected, but much of the functionality is now in-place. As everyone knows ORBit and Bonobo have been on the deprecated list for a long time.