Re: running Gnome apps on an ssh session

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

Hi.  Is this documented in bug reports?  If not, what packages need bug
reports filed against them?

          Kenny

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:42:45PM +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hi Kenny:
> 
> Accessibility for remote GNOME apps is still on the roadmap.  Because 
> the accessibility framework uses CORBA, it works in theory, but in 
> practice, the bonobo-activation mechanism which GNOME uses to register 
> with the at-spi registry is tied to localhost.  So the missing link is a 
> remote bonobo-activation; once you have that, the rest should fall into 
> place.
> 
> So it's a known issue that this doesn't work yet, but making it work, 
> though it will require some new code, should not be a big effort.
> 
> Here are some technical details:
> 
> 1) applications load an accessibility bridge at startup, and register 
> with the accessibility registry (at-spi-registryd) via 
> bonobo-activation.  Due to current limitations in bonobo-activation, 
> this registry is per-user-host, not per-display.
> 
> 2) the 'application instance' which is reported to the registry is 
> network-transparent, i.e. it could be local or remote.  Once the 
> registry, or an assistive technology, receives a reference to a remote 
> application, it can communicate with it just as though it were local 
> (though possibly more slowly).
> 
> 
> - Bill
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