[Accessibility] alphaWorks : Magnification Composite Manager

[Peter Korn]

Hi Olaf,

Of course you are right; freedesktop.org is a very obvious place for 
this to be hosted; no GNOME-only bias intended!  One interesting 
question: is it looking like GNOME & KDE will share a window manager, or 
will each have their own window manager (or window managers!)?  If the 
latter, then I'd guess we'd want this functionality in all of 'em!


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> [ Peter Korn ]
>   
>> Why isn't this simply part of the GNOME CVS repository (like ATSPI and
>> Gnopernicus and Orca and...)?
>>     
>
> On the one hand, I wonder whether the freedesktop.org repository would be a 
> more appropriate place for the AT-SPI IDL and for the magnifier if it is 
> intended to be cross-platform. On the other hand, KDE already depends on a 
> few cross-toolkit libraries that are hosted in Gnome CVS. Most KDE developers 
> are pragmatists.
>
> We plan to use a composite-based magnifier for KMagnifier in KDE4. But Gunnar 
> is working on his own composition-based magnifier as for his diploma thesis, 
> which will have a different feature set and also allow for frontends for KDE 
> and Gnome. Having two magnifiers in freedesktop.org CVS seems to be a bit 
> much. So I don't really care where the IBM magnifier is hosted, and long as 
> both magnifiers can work with all desktops without pulling in extra 
> dependencies. And as long as Peter does not imply that everything 
> accessibility related is in Gnome CVS.
>
> Olaf
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