Please review QAccessibilityClient

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Mandag 13. januar 2014 02.24.30 skrev Albert Astals Cid:
> El Divendres, 3 de gener de 2014, a les 22:09:04, Frederik Gladhorn va
> 
> escriure:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Mario Fux asked if I could make a release of libqaccessibilityclient. When
> > I started this little lib it was seemingly KDE only but with a bit of
> > help, mostly from Sebastian Sauer it became a nice little Qt only lib.
> 
> FWIW I gave it a look last week and from my "I know nothing about the
> domain", it looks good.

Thanks, I'll make a release the next days, we can always bump the major 
version number later.

If someone feels like helping out rolling tarballs or testing them that would 
be appreciated.

Greetings
Frederik


> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > It makes writing accessibility tools easy by providing a convenient API
> > over the rather tedious DBus AT-SPI "standard". That means it works with
> > Gnome, KDE/Qt apps and potentially others. Simon started to depend on it
> > and the KWin focus tracking works with it as well.
> > 
> > There is a fun example app that comes with the lib, it demonstrates a bit
> > what the library provides. There are two classes "Registry" to provide the
> > subscription to changes and "AccessibleObject" which represents one
> > widget.
> > Together they give a lot of information about running apps and are a nice
> > basis for further helpful technology.
> > 
> > The code can be found here:
> > git://anongit.kde.org/libkdeaccessibilityclient
> > 
> > I haven't had much time to work on it, but spent a bit of time cleaning it
> > up today. The functions are generally documented and I'd be very happy
> > about feedback/reviews.
> > 
> > If there are no major blockers/improvement suggestions I'd like to make a
> > release soon. If someone is looking for a fun and interesting new task, I
> > would be happy with some help to get this baby out.
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > Frederik