[Kde-accessibility] Timeframe for KDE 4

[Olaf Jan Schmidt]

[ Bill Haneman ]
> I don't understand why this is, as the proposal I though we agreed to in
> the short term bridges Qt/KDE to AT-SPI (via the atk-bridge, if I recall
> correctly).

The atk-bridge is application side only. It is important for making KDE 
accessible to Gnome-based assistive technologies short-term, but it does not 
help us to add AT-SPI support to KMousetool, NoKey and Gunnar's new 
magnifier. There is no IDL compiler for CORBA that generates Qt bindings, and 
forcing to KDE based assistive technologies to manually bridge between 
gobject and qobject based APIs makes no sense. Writing a new IDL compiler for 
CORBA does not make much sense either if we can directly go for DBUS.

Of course full interoperability will only be available once a DBUS IDL 
compiler has also been written for the Gnome side, but my understanding was 
that you plan to write one anyway in the medium term perspective.

Olaf

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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility co-maintainer, open standards 
accessibility networker, Protestant theology student and webmaster of 
http://accessibility.kde.org/ and http://www.amen-online.de/