Hi, Andor: Andor Demarteau writes: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Janina Sajka wrote: > Janina, > > > Yes, in a word. This is an agreement reached through the FSG > > Accessibility WG. > nice. > > > The short version of what is agreed is that the AT-SPI will provide the > > mechanism for passing data between AT and accessibility aware > > applications. We have agreed on a "Many Worlds" concept for how those > > messages might be passed to the AT-SPI from the applications. For > > instance, KDE will likely implement over dbus, while Gnome is using > > Corba. But these are the "under the hood" details that don't really > > matter to AT (like Gnopernicus, Gok, or some other AT) as long as it > > uses the AT-SPI. > ah corba is quite nice :) Uh, the QT/KDE developers don't seem to think so! <grin> But, that's why it's such good news that we're standardizing on a messaging interface, and not a particular set of tools for creating those messages. So, if QT/KDE developers think that D-Bus is nice, and Corba isn't, they're still supporting accessibility through the AT-SPI. > if qt gets accessible we also could think of getting things like qtopia > (trolltech's pda-windoing stuff) accessible as it is qt-based > simular as opie and gpe graphical systems for pda's smartphones which are > developted by handhelds.org > > ultimately that would mean fully accessible pda's and smartphones, nice. It will take time, but that's where we're going. Janina _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list