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

[Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes yahoo com br>]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:14 -0800, Peter Korn wrote:
> 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.

Okay, we really could have magnification improvements with this, but the
magnifier code stay very dependent, what is not good IMO, what do you
think about this? Do you think that have the magnifier so attached to
the window manager is a good idea?

Really, I think these questions are dummy, since it's clear in your
answears that the magnifier must go inside the window manager and this
appear to be a community consensus, but I still find that leaving the
magnifier appart from the window manager is good. Maybe I'm the only
dumb guy that find that we must go in other direction. The reasons to
not embbed the magnifier in the window manager are so clear in my mind
that I can't move toward this direction.

I really think that we must make applications easy to use, but we can't
make then inflexible and this is a direction to make the magnifier
inflexible.

> 
> 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.
> >   
> 
-- 
Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
===
"Unix, was the distilled essence of operating systems, designed solely
to be useful. Not to be marketable. Not to be compatible. Not to be an
appendage to a particular kind of hardware..." (Doug McIlroy)


	

	
		
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