Re: [g-a-devel] ATK and windows

[Olaf Schmidt <ojschmidt kde org>]

Hi Malte, hi George!

I fully respect that stabilising the existing code is most important from your 
perspective. I have no bad feelings about the decision not to pursure more 
interoperability at this point of time, as long as you accept my 
disappointment about it.

If someone is interested in a general Linux desktop solution or in 
accessibility solutions for mobile Linux, then I can put you into contact 
with the Trolltech developers working on accessibility, but I do not demand 
anything from anyone.

I fully understand that it is GNOME's right to concentrate all work on 
establishing a de-facto standard. I will object to any official 
standardisation of AT-SPI as a legal standard for Linux while the open issues 
are not solved, since I want to keep the road open for a common solution at a 
later point of time, and I respect your disappointment about this.

Please do not continue to use the characterisation of our motives 
as "philosophical". We perceive the technical issues that prevent Qt and KDE 
application from using CORBA as very real. Please refer to 
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/AT-SPI_on_D-Bus

I acknowledge that you do not wish discuss technical concepts and ideas in the 
situation and that you are mainly interested in seeing code. I hope that the 
chances for cooperation will improve once Qt 4.3 is released.

If I have said anything in the past that you have perceived as aggressive or 
unfair towards you, then please accept my apologies. I will continue to work 
towards a close cooperation between KDE and GNOME.

Olaf