Re: Enabling accessibility by default for GNOME?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks Vincent!

I should have been more clear so as to avoid the AccessX 
misunderstanding.  By "enabling accessibility" I meant the equivalent of 
doing the following:

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source 
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set 
/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true

This would enable the AT-SPI infrastructure by default.  Enabling the 
AccessX functionality is a whole different beast for a whole different 
discussion.  :-)

> Another risk is that things can get slower with a11y turned on (I
> remember fixing this in the workspace switcher properties -- it turned
> out to be code that was "less than optimized", but it wasn't noticable
> without a11y).

These are the exact kind of things we'd like to find!  :-)  By 
identifying these kinds of problems earlier, we can help assure that 
users that need accessibility won't end up suffering from such 
performance problems.

> > In any case, I'm curious about your thoughts before I consider raising this 
> > on desktop-devel.  That is, if you kill it here, I won't raise it there.  
> > ;-)
>
> I'm for it, at least during the development cycle.

I *think* we already have it on for the development cycle if I recall 
correctly.  What I'm hoping for is to see it enabled by default all the 
time.  :-)

Thanks!

Will