Re: [g-a-devel][Fwd: GNOME CVS: gok dtb]

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Bill, I agree.  Thanks very much for pointing this out.  We hope that 
the GOK can attract developers from i18n and kiosk projects, in addition 
of course to accessibility folks, and hackers in general.  I think this 
(optional) decoupling will help here.

Paramount of course is making sure that no accessibility is broken.

If someone would like to write the patch Bill discusses that would be 
great.  If you need assistance, or a code overview send me an email.

cheers,

David

Bill Haneman wrote:

> Hi David/All:
>
> I note that you added AT-SPI to the list of dependencies in INSTALL.
>
> This is currently accurate; however since there is interest at the
> moment in using GOK outside of a GNOME-2 environment, I think we should
> have an action item (perhaps for someone outside the core GOK team) the
> loosening of this dependency.
>
> In practice GOK can be used reasonably well with non-GNOME-2
> applications, but GOK does link to at-spi at the moment.  It should be
> feasible to check for at-spi in configure.in, set a HAVE_AT_SPI flag,
> and build a slightly-feature-crippled GOK without having the AT-SPI
> libraries and headers.
>
> I leave it as an exercise for those interested to provide patches for
> this, but I believe it would be preferable to having folks deterred by
> the AT-SPI dependency go off and create their own OSKs.
>
> Of course, GOK will continue to require at-spi for its advanced "UI
> Grab", "Menu", and "Toolbar" features, as well as for the use of
> (non-XInput-based) mouse buttons in all but direct selection mode.  But
> the GOK scanning and activation modes that will use XInput won't require
> at-spi.  Also, failure (at runtime) to connect with the at-spi registry
> should probably generate a warning but no be fatal; this would ensure
> that GOK would be as functional as possible on non-gnome-2-enabled
> desktops.
>
> As I said, this is not necessarily a priority for the GOK core team, but
> mention of the possibility should be made in INSTALL, so that the nature
> of the existing dependencies is known and so that interested parties can
> make the necessary modifications to relax them.
>
>
> best regards,
>
>
> Bill
>
>
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> Subject:
>
> GNOME CVS: gok dtb
> From:
>
> GNOME CVS Monitor <gnome-cvs-monitor ireland sun com>
> Date:
>
> Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:39:27 GMT
> To:
>
> bill haneman sun com
>
>
> CVSROOT:	/cvs/gnome
> Module name:	gok
> Changes by:	dtb	02/12/10 13:36:04
>
> Modified files:
> 	.              : INSTALL 
>
> Log message:
> Added AT-SPI to the list of requirements.
>
> URL : http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?module=gok&branch=&branchtype=match&dir=gok&file=&filetype=match&who=dtb&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=&date=explicit&mindate=2002-12-10%2013:35&maxdate=2002-12-10%2013:37&cvsroot=/cvs/gnome
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