ADDENDUM Re: [g-a-devel] Standardization and Interoperability Statement of Intent

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Aditya:

I would also like to point out that your assertion that Bonobo is "dead 
or dying" is somewhat controversial.  In the GNOME 2.X timeframe, and 
very likely in the 3.X timeframe as well, Bonobo will continue to be 
provided with the Gnome libraries because of binary-compatibility 
guarantees.  Once integrated into the desktop, such technologies take a 
very long time to die.  I agree that we should future-proof ourselves 
against relying on technologies which are no longer fashionable, which 
is another motivation for our "multiple worlds" approach to binary 
certification of the AT-SPI backend.

Best regards,

Bill


Aditya Pandey wrote:

> Hi
>
> 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.
>
> In short, I could not find answers to what set of "base" libraries is 
> going to be used, or is it that there would be multiple 
> implementations all conforming to some IDL.
>
> On 9/26/05, *Bill Haneman* <Bill Haneman sun com 
> <mailto:Bill Haneman sun com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone:
>
>     I would like to draw your attention to a statement which the Gnome
>     and KDE Accessibility Projects, and the Free Standards Group's
>     Accessibility Workgroup (FSGA), have prepared regarding
>     the plans and intentions of their projects with respect to
>     interoperability and standardization:
>
>     http://accessibility.freestandards.org/a11yweb/forms/soi.php
>
>     We hope that this statement helps clarify where our projects are
>     going in the future and in particular the degree to which we aim
>     to continue working together to improve accessibility for all of
>     our users.
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Bill
>
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