[Kde-accessibility] Features of KMag

[Renato Resende Ribeiro de Oliveira]

I already implemented some lines and was able to bring back the feature.
But i am developing at OS X and due to KWindowSystem problems (see
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120931/) i wasn't able to properly test
the docking features.
I will setup a linux machine to properly test it and clean the code.

I think this feature will be easily brought back =)

2015-06-30 21:40 GMT-03:00 Renato Resende Ribeiro de Oliveira <
renatorro at comp.ufla.br>:

> Hi Frederik,
> I was looking at the code and the commit was on October 2014.
> I already cloned the repository as readonly and looking some diffs on the
> code between KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.0 branches.
>
> As Christoph said, it looks like they removed some methods in some point
> there, but i saw no clear reason for it.
>
> I have low vision and uses the KMag as screen magnifier in the top edge
> mode.
> Since the KDE 3.5 was being deprecated in Unix distributions. i start to
> swap between then using only the ones that still provides KDE 3 in their
> repositories.
> After a while of course all of then stopped using KDE 3.
> I ended up using openSUSE, that uses KDE 4 but provides all KDE 3 libs and
> the old kaccessibility package.
> But now, the KMag has some new features that interest me a lot, like the
> follow keyboard focus feature.
> So i was thinking in doing this development since a couple of years.
>
> I will do some tests on the KMag latest code to try to enable the edge
> mode again on 4.14 version.
>
> If you all could help me, i have 2 questions that can help me with this:
> - The QAccessibilityClient is an opensource project? If so, where can i
> get it's code to build and make it available to KMag for enabling keyboard
> focus tracking?
> - The other question is more technical, there is something equivalent to
> kdockwidget.h of kdelibs3 in kdelibs4?
>
> Thanks a lot for the answers.
> Regards
>
> 2015-06-30 19:19 GMT-03:00 Christoph Feck <cfeck at kde.org>:
>
>> On Tuesday 30 June 2015 23:39:28 Renato Resende Ribeiro de Oliveira
>> wrote:
>> > Since the release of KDE 4 i wonder why the KMag feature of docking
>> > window mode (top, bottom, etc) was removed.
>> > After opening feature request on bugzilla and posting on forums, i
>> > (and other users) received no information about this.
>> > Now i am thinking on the possibility to re-add this feature in the
>> > actual code of KMag by myself.
>> >
>> > I would like to know if anything has been discussed about this here
>> > or if any KMag active developer has interest in this feature
>> > implementation (or just have any note or information regarding
>> > this subject).
>>
>> It looks like the "edge mode" was not removed, but was wrongly
>> committed to the KDE/3.5 branch after master was used for KDE 4
>> development.
>>
>> Christoph Feck
>>
>
>
>
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