Re: [g-a-devel] window composite managers and gnome-mag

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Carlos,

I think the right answer is for the composite windowing managers to 
implement the gnome-mag API (or likely better still, some new API that 
we work out that doesn't depending upon CORBA).  Starting with gnome-mag 
now (vs. waiting until we define a new API) would I think be the fastest 
way to significant magnification improvements.

Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> Hi,
>
> When the window composite managers be all around how gnome-mag will
> play?
>
> David Reveman give me the advice to write a compiz plugin and make
> gnome-mag communicate with it when compiz is running. This is reasonable
> for me, but we must have some kind of specification here, something that
> I think that fit into the EWMH.
>
> First we must be able to know if the window manager running is a
> composite manager (if not, gnome-mag use it's own composite code).
>
> Second, hints (I don't think that hints is a good way, since it must be
> granted) for change the built-in window manager magnifier options must
> be added, this way when gnome-mag receives a call to change the zoom
> factor it will be sended to the window composite manager.
>
> I still want a functional magnifier if I don't want to use a specific
> window manager. This is the only way that I see to make the magnifier
> portable enough between different window composite managers without
> having to make major modifications to the Xserver.
>
> Comments about this are really appreciated.
>