[Kde-accessibility] Use of gconf key '/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility' on KDE ?

[Ashu Sharma]

On 6/26/06, Bill Haneman <Bill.Haneman at sun.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:19, Ashu Sharma wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There was discussion about making use of ATK on KDE, rather than
> > putting in another CORBA implementation to talk to AT-SPI (to avoid
> > dependency on GNOME-related libraries). I'm not quite clear as to what
> > was finally decided.
>
> If KDE writes to ATK, it makes the job easier in a number of ways (at
> the cost of introducing a glib dependency, but hiding other gnome-ish
> dependencies).  However, the AT-SPI layer requires CORBA in order to
> function, so in order to actually expose useful information to our
> assistive technologies, an application must LD_PRELOAD the "atk-bridge"
> module which bridges from ATK to AT-SPI's CORBA IPC.
>
> I think this is the most effective thing to do for the time being
> (preload atk-bridge), since it doesn't introduce a CORBA dependency on
> the KDE apps (only a soft runtime dependency).  The AT-SPI assistive
> technology clients cannot work without the AT-SPI/ORBit2/etc. libraries
> being present on the system anyhow, so from a practical perspective this
> is the minimum current dependency situation.
>
> There's another environment variable you can look for if you don't want
> to use gconf; GTK_MODULES.  Of course that's still quite a
> gnome/gtk+-ish variable and arguably not appropriate to KDE anyhow, so
> it might be cleaner just to spawn a gconf-client executable and parse
> the output, in order to detect whether assistive technology support is
> desired or not.  Also, soon there will be a slightly different mechanism
> for detecting the presence of the AT-SPI registry - it will place an IOR
> as an Xatom on the root DISPLAY window.  This means you can find it
> without using bonobo-activation.
>
> regards
>
> Bill
>
> >
> > On a related note, is the gconf
> > key '/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility' used on KDE too, to set
> > or find if accessibility support is to be enabled on a system? Or, is
> > it used only on GNOME?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ashutosh
> >
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>

Bill,
Thanks for these details.
I am actually wondering about the current state of KDE accessibility -
whether AT clients under KDE currently depend on gnome/gconf libraries
(especially if they use the gconf key
'/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility' to enable AT support).
Thanks,
Ashutosh
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