Re: gnome-mag for 2.32

[Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes gmail com>]

Hi,

I'm also posting to GNOME Accessibility List because others can also
be interested. Sorry for not being more clear about the two
magnifiers.

GS-mag is a new magnifier being developed inside GnomeShell (GS) as a plugin.

With GNOME 3.0 GS will be the default desktop and compositor.
Gnome-mag is also a compositor, so it doesn't interact well with GS,
but there will be some users that will not be able to run GS and will
need gnome-mag.

What we already have done is a default D-BUS interface that GS-mag and
gnome-mag implements (there are some minor bits that need adjustments,
like names, some missing methods for one magnifier or the other).

With this, the scenario will be: If GS is running and the user start
Orca, it will use GS-mag, otherwise gnome-mag will be activated.

Hope this make the plans for the future cleaner.

Best regards,
Carlos.

2010/5/29 Patrick Welche <prlw1 cam ac uk>:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:21:59AM -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Di?genes wrote:
>> The currently plan to magnification for GNOME 2.32 (3.0) is to keep
>> gnome-mag and GS-mag functionality in sync. This include some changes
>> in the currently D-BUS interface and support to save and restore the
>> magnifier state from GConf.
>
> Can you tell me more? I didn't even know there were 2 magnifiers...
> I may be able to help... (Even though it is ATRC rather than UCAM that
> look at magnification under AEGIS)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>