Re: Linux Window Managers and Accessibility
- From: cwitty newtonlabs com (Carl R. Witty)
- To: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
- Cc: daniel rimspace net, Sasha_Vasko osca state mo us, Brian Cameron Sun COM, jsh pixelslut com, sawfish lists eazel com, wm-spec-list gnome org, gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Linux Window Managers and Accessibility
- Date: 11 Jun 2001 16:42:05 -0700
Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM> writes:
> Sasha said:
>
> >Host name might be a better solution, and by the way, fits into
> existing
> >standards - ICCCM WM_CLIENT_MACHINE property could be used.
>
>
> Right, thus the suggestion of char* for the parameter type in the method
> mapping application ids (including hostname) to Desktops.
Hostname is also not guaranteed to be unique.
> Carl said:
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> Not all accessible applications will have associated windows. Also it's
> not clear which window should be "distinguished". The
> AccessibilityBroker itself has no inherent reason to connect to X.
I don't understand the architecture here, I guess...although that
might not matter.
What accessible applications would not have windows? Sound-only?
Console-only? Anyway, any application which connects to the X server
at all can create a never-mapped window and use its ID as the
AccessibilityBroker identifier. (Applications which don't connect to
the X server don't matter in this context, right?)
> The goal here is to map an accessible application's unique
> identification info (provided by the app when it registers with the
> AccessibilityBroker) onto the appropriate desktop/desktops.
Why not have the AccessibilityBroker give a unique identification
token to the application when it registers? The application can pass
that on to the window manager.
Carl Witty
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