Re: Linux Window Managers and Accessibility

From: Sasha_Vasko osca state mo us
To: Bill Haneman sun com, daniel rimspace net, cwitty newtonlabs com (Carl R. Witty)
Cc: Brian Cameron sun com, jsh pixelslut com, sawfish lists eazel com, wm-spec-list gnome org, gnome-accessibility-list gnome org, cwitty newtonlabs com
Subject: Re: Linux Window Managers and Accessibility
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 16:17:18 -0500

> In the face of Network Address Translation, IP addresses are not good
> identifiers for machines.  Neither the IP address that the client
> believes itself to have, nor the IP address that the server sees the
> client connection come from, need be unique.

Host name might be a better solution, and by the way, fits into existing
standards - ICCCM WM_CLIENT_MACHINE property could be used.

>
> I'm not sure I understand the problem exactly.  Does the
> AccessibilityBroker connect to the X server?  If so, I would think
> that the Window ID of some distinguished window in the application
> would be a better identifier.
>
> Carl Witty

Cheers
Sasha Vasko

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