Re: [g-a-devel] Bug 362457 - RFE to enable accessibility in unstable releases of GNOME (libgnome)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> > Note that accessibility friendly distributions such as Ubuntu, however,
> > probably could choose to just always keep accessibility enabled in the
> > default schema.
> >   
> 
> Which would turn accessibility on by default for all users also in 
> stable releases, right? I think we are still a few release cycles with 
> testing away from that possibility. AT-SPI still slows down a system, 
> uses RAM and can invoke bugs in various apps. Many ubuntu users have 
> fairly modest systems, esp. when running a Live CD. So that's probably 
> not going to fly at this point.

You are correct.  Have you guys done any work to quantify the slow down
in terms of CPU and RAM usage?  I'm curious what the real impact is.

Will