Hi! [Aditya Pandey] > This is a welcome statement of intent. But it leaves doubts on what exactly > is the roadmap (implementation), as in bonobo is either dead or dying, so > what happens to the implementation...is the accessibility code being > changed for D-BUS.
The intention of KDE is clearly to move AT-SPI onto D-BUS. GNOME might then either choose to also move to DBUS by reimplementing ATK and the Java Accessibility API, or to help us write a bridge between the two variants of AT-SPI instead. At the FSG Accessibility meeting in Hawaii last January, we discussed possible obstacles to a DBUS approach, and the only objection left was that it is currently not in wide enough use to know how stable it is. My impression using older versions of AT-SPI was that it was also not really stable, but I don't know whether this was a problem with the RPC or with the assistive technologies. Anyway, Bill and Peter assured me that the vast majority of these problem have been fixed in recent months. Other mentioned points were network trancparency (possible with DBUS, but I don't know of any uses of it yet) and reference counting (necessary for CORBA only; it can be emulated in the DBUS bindings and obsoleted at a later point). Olaf _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
