Chris Brannon, le Tue 19 Jan 2010 06:10:22 -0600, a ?crit : > The X-window system only offers low-level abstractions. It concerns > itself with the rendering of bitmapped images on graphical devices. Yes. > Desktop environments like Gnome give us a higher level of abstraction, and > Orca doesn't have to deal with those raw X events. Yes. Note: yes, there _is_ a text rendering interface in X11 too, but no recent toolkit use it because it is a pain to integrate and lacks a lot of features. So basically X11 is just pixmaps nowadays. Samuel