Re: [orca-list] if you've ever wanted to try a qt application with orca ...

[Jeremy Lincicome <w0jrl1 gmail com>]

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Hi List,
That sounds like it might be a good solution to work with QT
applications. I just have one question; How do I set this up in Ubuntu
Maverick? I can install qt-at-spi, but beyond that I'm lost. Do I need
to put all those extra settings into a file? If so, where do I put it?

Thanks,
Jeremy

On 03/31/2011 11:05 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Hi, list,
>
> I posted this to the vinux group earlier today but thought that this
> forum might be interested as wel.  Ther is now a debian package of the
> qt-at-spi bridge it seems.  Actually, it's a package built by one of
> the kde developers for the Kubuntu experimental port.  KDE, anyone?
> Here is the ppa:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/experimental
>
> Does it work?  Well, here's a quote for your digestion.  Please take
> note of the final sentence.  One of those bombshells people just sort
> of drop casually on you:
>
> title:  usb-creator in suse; accessibility in Qt, it speaks!
>
> "More successful was packaging qt-at-spi, a plugin to get Qt talking
> to AT-SPI2. Qt 4 has always had accessibility but while it has worked
> on Windows and Mac it has never been plugged into the AT-SPI interface
> used by Linux. This is because AT-SPI used Bonobo which used CORBA and
> nobody wants to implement CORBA if they can at all avoid it. So Nokia
> and others worked on AT-SPI2 which uses DBus. Unfortunately AT-SPI2
> has been a long time coming, but now it is stabalising and getting
> ready for use. Frederick Gladhorn has taken up the Qt plugin to talk
> AT-SPI 2 and you can find it in the Kubuntu Experimental PPA.
>
> It takes some fiddling to get it to work and the end result is crashy.
> I had to install at-spi2-core, libatk-adaptor, python-pyatspi2 as well
> as orca the screen reader. Then set some gconf settings to tell orca
> to use AT-SPI2 (gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/at-spi-dbus
> --type bool true; gconftool-2 --set
> /desktop/gnome/interface/at-spi-corba --type bool false). Force some
> environment variables export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge; export
> QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 and finally orca will read my Qt applications.
> Yay."
>
> Here's the url where I found this.
> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/
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