Re: [orca-list] Orca & GSettings

[Alejandro Leiva <aleiva emergya es>]

El 07/06/2010, a las 11:08, trev saunders gmail com escribió:

> HI,
>
> > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 09:02:04AM EST, trev saunders gmail com wrote:
> > > well, I think this depends on the question I asked earlier about if we are a screen reader for gnome, or 
> > > a general x11 scre
> > en reader that uses at-spi, and currently happens to work best with gnome.  If we are a screen reader for 
> > gnome then I gues w
> > e don't have much choice.  On the other hand if we aren't a gnome project then I believe we can handle our 
> > settings however w
> > e want.  Although I don't actually know I imagine the only real reason we re so relted to gnomewas Sun, so 
> > after Sun I wonder
> > if there is stil a reason to be so relate to gnome? What do poeple think?
> >
> > Since QT/KDE are not even close to being ready, I don't think this is an issue. However, once KDE/QT are 
> > hooked up to at-spi 
> > and ready to go, you can be sure that I'll be one of the first to suggest that orca becomes a 
> > freedesktop/desktop agnostic pr
> > oject, since it should then be able to work in KDE, and IMO, duplication is not a good idea, particularly 
> > with the few resour
> > ces we currently have.
>
> what about other gtk based desktops that aren't gnome? lxe and xfce are the ones that have been mentioned 
> here before.  fluxbox looks like it should too.  There are also the window managers that aren't really 
> desktops like awesome, ion3 and many other ones.  aren't these enough reason not to be gnome specific 
> project?
>
> Trev


Hi Trevor,

        The solution we're designing is based in a façade+adapter that it'll make things easier for 
integration in any desktop around. As I said previously this work is beneficial for any desktop around.

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