[Kde-accessibility] Fwd: KDE 3.1 suggestion: gtkeyboard clone

Navindra Umanee navindra@cs.mcgill.ca
Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:13:35 -0400


Bill Haneman <bill.haneman@sun.com> wrote:
> It presents dynamic keyboards which adapt to both user input and the
> currently active application UI.  It also works with applications that
> don't explicitly support the GNOME Accessibility APIs, i.e. plain X
> applications and KDE apps.  It also supports a variety of input devices
> and input methods, ranging from direct pointer selection to various
> scanning and predictive algorithms.

If it works with apps that don't support an Accessibility API, than
what's the point of an Accessibility API?  Does this mean that it
would be fairly straightforward to port GOK to KDE?  Just a matter of
GUI programming?

Sorry, not volunteering, nor knowledgeable, just curious about your
remarks...

-N.