Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-09-04 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Hi Peter, After reading lot's of messages (from 2005 to today) about the Metacity development, I don't think that the GNOME community want to switch Metacity due all the maintenance that it have and the good integration that it have with GNOME and I really don't want to start this discussion

Re: FW: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-31 Thread Willie Walker
accessed. HTH Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Korn Sent: 30 August 2007 17:53 To: Willie Walker Cc: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: D-BUS based magnification API Hi Willie

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Peter Korn wrote: Assume that without GL, we can have a magnifier of quality 5, and with GL a magnifier of quality 10 (just an assumption for sake of argument, please bear with me). Since GL now runs on even somewhat older video hardware, and you can get a GL card for not much money if you

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Willie Walker
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 15:14 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote: * Eliminating the Bonobo dependency from accessibility stuff in GNOME. Note that this doesn't necessarily equate to eliminating CORBA. I really have no idea how much impact this would cause. I learned only basic

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Willie, Carlos, gang, ... Are you coming to GNOME Boston 2007? Magnification is one of the critical things we want to talk about for the accessibility summit. Ow... it would be a dream :-), but I don't have passport and don't have money, so no :-(, but I really like to know

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
2007/8/30, Peter Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Willie, Carlos, gang, ... Are you coming to GNOME Boston 2007? Magnification is one of the critical things we want to talk about for the accessibility summit. Ow... it would be a dream :-), but I don't have passport and don't have money,

RE: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Pascoe
-accessibility-list@gnome.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: D-BUS based magnification API Hi Willie, Carlos, gang, ... Are you coming to GNOME Boston 2007? Magnification is one of the critical things we want to talk about for the accessibility summit. Ow... it would be a dream :-), but I

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-30 Thread Willie Walker
I'm not sure of the logistics of a phone in possibility. They ALWAYS are very difficult when there are a large number of people in one room and a few on the phone. In my experience, we can easily spend more time with getting the call set up and I can't hear you problems than we do actually being

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-29 Thread Carlos Diógenes
Hi Eitan, 2007/8/28, Eitan Isaacson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Carlos, I also would like to now if someone have interest in the concept of an 'unmanaged' zoom region; that is, a zoom region that have content defined by the application using the API. Although this is something that is in

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-29 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Hi Willie, 2007/8/28, Willie Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Carlos: This is a very timely discussion to have since there are a bunch of thoughts on many people's minds right now. These include the following: * Eliminating the Bonobo dependency from accessibility stuff in GNOME. Note that

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Carlos, In two places you mention going with Metacity: ... * Understanding where the masses are going with respect the composite extension manager. Is it metacity, compiz, something else? Where/how does gnome-mag fit in this new world? There was a big discussion about

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-29 Thread Li Yuan
The most use of Bonobo in A11Y infrastructure was activation before GNOME 2.18, although our idl are based on Bonobo::Unknown. In GNOME2.18 we change the way of activation, so we can remove Bonobo dependency because it is announced as upcoming deprecation. And also, it creates the *possibility* of

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-29 Thread Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Hi Peter, 2007/8/29, Peter Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Carlos, In two places you mention going with Metacity: ... * Understanding where the masses are going with respect the composite extension manager. Is it metacity, compiz, something else? Where/how does gnome-mag fit in

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Korn
Hi Carlos, ... I would like to suggest more study of the Compiz option before making the decision to work with Metacity instead. While today it seems no desktop UNIX distro is prepared to replace Metacity with Compiz, it does appear that many (most? all?) are looking to have it as a

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Carlos: This is a very timely discussion to have since there are a bunch of thoughts on many people's minds right now. These include the following: * Eliminating the Bonobo dependency from accessibility stuff in GNOME. Note that this doesn't necessarily equate to eliminating CORBA. *

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Ariel Rios
Willie et al, I was just thinking before actually reading this emai to write you (Willie) so we could restart this discussion so I can write a nice proposal for my next Mozilla grant proposal so I can possibly start working on this by next month or so. I will start writing a document and

Re: D-BUS based magnification API

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Korn
this layer as well. And perhaps you have the layer at full (magnified) resolution, so you wouldn't need to magnify it and thus it would be jaggy-free. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hi, I would like to create a D-BUS based magnification API, but since some