Re: [orca-list] More on desktop shells, 2D vs 3D, and the future.

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi, Frederik,

Out of curiosity, has any progress been made in the area of text entry
fields and text editing widgets with qt?  Last I checked a little less
than a month ago, this functionality was not working well.  Any idea
how things are going now?

Thanks.
Alex M

On 5/11/12, Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn kde org> wrote:
> Hi Luke,
> I'll just quickly comment on the KDE part ;)
>
> Onsdag 9. mai 2012 15.56.26 skrev Luke Yelavich:
> > Hi all,
> > KDE:
> > KDE uses the QT widget toolkit. I believe that KDE does use 3D rendering
> > by
> > default, although this may be incorrect. It also may be possible to
> > disable
> > 3D graphics rendering, although again I am not 100% sure.
> >
> > Whilst QT accessibility is improving, more work is needed to improve
> > KDE's
> > accessibility, as KDE has many custom elements that need to be enabled
> > for
> > accessibility. We will have accessible KDe applications before we have
> > the
> > whole desktop accessible, which is still good enough, given our other
> > desktop shell choices.
>
> KDE has logic to try to use 3D and automatically fall back to not using it.
>
> The code base is the same, so there is no noticable difference between the
> two. I can toggle the effects by a keyboard shortcut at runtime.
>
> As for custom widgets, my testing shows that surprisingly many just work.
> Some
> features will be "invisible" to the screen reader, such as KDE adding a
> small
> clear button in line edits. But the edit will still works as normal, just
> the
> clear button not be discovered.
>
> And yes, there is still a long way to go, let's start today ;)
>
> Cheers
> Frederik
>
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