As some of you may know, the accessibility framework is getting ported from CORBA/ORBit to DBus [1]. The (ambitious) upstream plan is to have this transition completed in time for GNOME 2.30, ie within the F-13 timeframe. This is a big effort, and the accessibility guys need all the help they can get. To help with testing and feedback, I plan to get the new accessibility stack into rawhide in early January. I have done initial packages for the at-spi2 components [2], but they are not quite ready for prime time yet (they don't have the coexistence part entirely sorted out). Some details about the changes that coming: The CORBA-based at-spi package is being replaced by three components: at-spi2-core - protocol definitions and registry daemon at-spi2-atk - the atk-bridge GTK+ module pyatspi - Python bindings for at-spi There is no replacement for the cspi 'C bindings' at the moment. The current users of cspi are being ported to use D-Bus directly (mousetweaks) or replaced (gok being replaced by Caribou [3]). I am not sure about the porting status of dasher... To make the transition phase less painful, there are some efforts to allow the old and new stacks to coexist. The CORBA-based at-spi stuff will install its atk-bridge module and Python bindings somewhere else, and there will be a desktop file that sets the GTK_PATH environment variable and a pyatspi.pth Python module that sets some Python path. These path-tweaks will be triggered by a GConf key, allowing both stacks to be installed at the same time and allowing users and testers to switch back and forth between the stacks. It would be great if people who are interested in accessibility on Fedora could chime in and help with planning this to make the transition as smooth as it can. I'm sure there will be some bumps along the way anyway... Matthias PS Having written all this down, I realize that I should probably turn this into a feature page... [1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/accessibility/atk/at-spi/at-spi_on_d-bus [2] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544628 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544629 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544630 [3] http://live.gnome.org/Caribou -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
