Re: [g-a-devel] [Accessibility-atspi] AT-SPI and D-Bus

[Olaf Jan Schmidt <ojschmidt kde org>]

[ Samuel Thibault ]
> I'm just wondering: can't any corba implementation (other than ORBit,
> omniORB or TAO for instance) be used by Qt instead ?

I don't know. KDE stopped using CORBA because the people dealing found it too 
complicated to work with. Our evaluation is that the effort to do this would 
certainly be greater than using D-Bus.

It would also be no solution for the libbonobo dependency. Bill Haneman once 
said that working on this within the current AT-SPI implementation doesn't 
make sense if we plan to go for D-Bus long-term anyway, and I agree with him.

I am getting the impression that the GNOME accessibility developers do not 
care about making it easier to implement interoperability with Qt and KDE, 
and would instead like push a libbonobo-based AT-SPI version into the LSB and 
make people believe that all full-featured assistive technologies are GNOME 
tools anyway.

Olaf

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accessibility networker, Protestant theology student and webmaster of 
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