Re: Enable accessibility by default in development releases?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 12:20 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:

> So here's a (possibly crazy) suggestion: during development releases,
> enable a11y by default, and during stable releases, disable it by
> default.  That way people running jhbuild, GARNOME etc would be running
> all of the a11y code, and any bugs in that layer would be discovered
> more quickly.

Let's do it.

On a few conditions:

- You will write a short tutorial of how to write profiling scripts with
Dogtail.

- You will write a little bunch of Dogtail scripts that will help us
profile particularly slow operations (opening the panel menu, doing
stuff in Evolution)

- Sun will write the dtrace scripts to figure out why/how enabling a11y
is a performance problem for the desktop:  a11y does a lot of IPC, and
profiling that is hard unless you have something like dtrace.

All agreed? :)

  Federico