Re: control pannels (yast and gnome control center)

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Opie,

>   When running gnopernicus, I have tried to enter yast and also gnome
> control center, but gnopernicus says no menu bars, and no other hints I'm in
> the control centers, both of them. is there a work around for this? I
> usually would type in some commands into Konsole and its done, but I'd like
> to do it easier threw the control centers.

As Bill Haneman wrote recently in response to a simliar question: Gnopernicus 
can only read that information which is provided by the accessibility 
interfaces (specifically AT-SPI) of the programs it is interacting with.  In 
other words - the applications need to support accessibility.

Qt applications like yast do not (yet) do this.  That is changing with KDE 4 
coming soon, but we aren't there yet.  Meanwhile some of the older GNOME 
applications like the control center are based on an older version of the 
GNOME GTK+ libraries that are likewise not implementing the accessibility 
interfaces.

We expect that over time most of the interesting applications will implement 
the accessibility interfaces (and quite a few do so already), but we aren't 
all the way there yet.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team