Re: KDE Interop [Was: D-BUS background]

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 00:35, Zack Rusin wrote: 
>  
>
> > > I am just tired of hearing glib brought up as a problem everytime
> > > code sharing is discussed because at this point that should be a
> > > non-issue.
> > >      
> > GLib in itself is never an issue we can deal with core glib just fine, I 
> > just don't want any gobject's in core libraries and I think that's a 
> > reasonable expectation.
> >
> >    
> Pango and ATK both use GObject, so, would that mean that we're going to
> have to write a replacement for them to share it with KDE when it comes
> to sharing accessibility/fonts because of the gobject dependency?
>  
While it would be nice to share pango (a lot of the layout code in pango 
is decidedly non-trivial), we are able to share a font subsystem through 
the use of fontconfig/Xft.

As far as accessibility goes, it might make more sense for KDE to look 
at compatibility at the AT-SPI layer, rather than ATK layer.  This is 
what the Sun guys are doing to hook Java a11y into the system, and 
should let all the a11y tools work with KDE apps.  Of course, Bill 
Haneman is the expert in this particular area.

James.

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