[Kde-accessibility] FYI: Public release of UltraSonix (Mercator) source code

[Bill Haneman]

Hi David

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>but  also may be possable to adapt it to use at-spi or qt4  
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I am not sure this is feasible, from what I know of the project.  As you 
said it really only works with CDE and Xt widgets.

The basic idea was to leverage the X server protocols as information 
conduits about widget hierarchy, state, and contents.  My understanding 
is that one of the reasons the project didn't go further is that most 
applications have moved away from Xt and from using X text calls for 
posting text onscreen, thus undermining one of the project's core 
requirements.

Bill

>my overall thoughts on it
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>in some ways this looks a good choice as it does not just depend on kde / 
>gnome  as a window manager 
>it has some good concepts that it includes  like the mixture of sounds and 
>speech
>the down side is its license in its current form ,if we cannot get it changed 
>then there is little hope for it 
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>from my point of view i don't have a lot of time that i could spend codeing 
>and my codeing is not strong on gui stuff , but i will have time to coordinate 
>work on it , and keep the project alive in some way ,this will depend greatly 
>on if the license can be changed though 
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>if the license issue can be resolved i will apply again to get it hosted as a 
>sourceforge project , and see about getting some extra devs to help 
>
>think its a shame that the code has been left for so long with no active 
>maintainer
>
>Dave 
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