Re: Draft release announcement

[Kristian Rietveld <kris gtk org>]

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 16:48, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:
> 
> > > From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
> > > Date: Fri,  8 Mar 2002 12:34:02 -0500 (EST)
> > > 
> > > rsteinke w-link net writes:
> > > 
> > > > From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet ACT-Europe FR>
> > > > >
> > > > > >  - The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility.
> > > > > >    By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can
> > > > > >    be used such as tools such as screen readers, magnifiers,
> > > > >
> > > > >      The sentence above is not correct, but I couldn't guess what the
> > > > >      correct sentence would be.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe "be used by such tools as screen readers, ..."?
> > > 
> > > I went with 'with such tools as...'
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > >                                         Owen
> > 
> > If it's not too late, could we add the words "built in ", as in
> > 
> > "The ATK library provides a set of built-in interfaces for
> > accessibility."
> 
> "built-in" doesn't really mean much to me here. Whether they are
> built-in or not depends on the system using ATK, right?
>  
> > Or more accurately, we could mention that 
> > 
> > "the GAIL library, available with GNOME 2 or as a separate download, 
> > provides an implementation of those interfaces for the GTK+ widget set."
>  
> I think the ATK specific announcement would be a good place to mention
> GAIL. What I've appended is what Padraig sent me as a draft of an
> announcement, with some formatting changes and with a mention of 
> GAIL added.
> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
> 
> ==================================================
> ATK-1.0.0 is now available for download from:
> 
>  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/
> 
> This is the first stable release of ATK.
> 
> The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility.  By
> supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used
> such as tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, and alternative
> input devices.
> 
> Atk provides a core set of interfaces which are common to all widgets
> and "additional" interfaces that are appropriate to certain classes of
> widgets and whose existence can be queried at run time.  It also
> provides interfaces which an application can use to provide additional
> accessibility information to assistive technology tools.
> 
> The GAIL package, available from:
>  
>  http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/pre-gnome2/sources/gail/
> 
> provides an implementation of the ATK interfaces for the GTK+
> user interface toolkit.
> 
> More information about ATK is available from:
> 
>  http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
> 
> 
> The following people contributed to the development of ATK:
> 
> Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Hans Breuer, Padraig O'Briain, 
> Lucy Brophy, Brian Cameron Bill Haneman, Jens Finke, Tim Janik, 
                            ^
You missed a comma there :).

</strict mode>

regards,


	Kris

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