Re: [orca-list] AtkText interfaces

[Eric Williams <ericwill redhat com>]

Hello,

On 10/21/2017 05:37 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would suggest updating orca.
> If that proves not to be sufficient then it would be nice to backport 
> the change to the orca versions shipped in Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.04. 
> Others will hopefully pick from there.

I am in favor of this as well. In the meantime I can implement both the 
deprecated and the new interfaces. Once Orca is updated I can remove the 
deprecated ones.

This allows text accessibility in Eclipse SWT to be functional ASAP 
since it currently doesn't work at all.

Eric


> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
> Dňa 21. 10. 2017 11:15 AM používateľ "Alejandro Piñeiro" 
> <apinheiro igalia com <mailto:apinheiro igalia com>> napísal:
>
>     On 21/10/17 11:06, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>      > On 10/21/2017 10:35 AM, Alejandro Piñeiro wrote:
>      >
>      >> Yes, the idea was that Orca would migrate to the new API.
>     Probably it
>      >> was a miscommunication during that GUADEC hackfest,
>      > Looks like it. Or I am mis-remembering.
>      >
>      >> So, summarizing. If Orca moves to the new API, that should work on
>      >> toolkits implementing the old API, thanks to the at-spi2
>     plumbing. Not
>      >> sure if Orca has plans to do that move soon though.
>      > I can do it relatively soon. But as I indicated in my response to
>     Mike,
>      > my making that change in Orca will only provide users of the modified
>      > Orca with access to the software Eric is working on.
>
>     AFAIU, the only way to prevent that would be ask Eric to implement
>     deprecated interfaces. From the two options, I think (I could be wrong),
>     that it is better to implement the new interface, even if users need to
>     use a newer Orca.
>
>     BR
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