Re: Project Announce: AT-SPI D-Bus

["Stephen Shaw" <sshaw decriptor com>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Mark Doffman
<mark doffman codethink co uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A new project has recently been added to freedesktop.org that aims to
> translate the AT-SPI interface to D-Bus and provide API compatible
> replacements for the AT-SPI libraries. The project was started with
> GNOME's deprecation of CORBA in mind, but also with the goal of
> providing cross-desktop accessibility.
>
> Coding began  about in May of 2008 and a-lot of progress has been made.
> There has not yet been a release, and the code is development quality,
> but it would be very useful for people involved in the accessibility
> community to take a look, test, and tell us where we might be going wrong.
>
> The repository is available at:
>
> http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/at-spi2/at-spi2-core.git
> or
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/at-spi2/at-spi2-core.git
>
> Included in this codebase is:
>
> A D-Bus version of the ATK bridge library.
> A D-Bus version of the AT-SPI Registry daemon.
> A D-Bus version of the pyatspi library.
> A D-Bus version of the cspi library (Currently in disrepair)
> The D-Bus AT-SPI specifications.
>
> A page detailing the current status of the project and instructions for
> testing is located at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/AT-SPI_on_D-Bus.
>
> The mailing list for the project is
> accessibility-atspi lists linux-foundation org 
>
> I hope that these libraries will one day be stable enough to replace the
> CORBA versions, as the use of D-Bus has a number of advantages to GNOME
> accessibility. I think the most important of these is that we improve
> our chances of having QT applications accessible using GNOME tools such
> as Orca, Accerciser and GOK, as well as gaining the possibility of these
> tools being used in KDE.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
> _______________________________________________


I can provide packaging for opensuse and maybe fedora I think.  I had
packages for opensuse and I think it would work for fedora as well,
but not sure.

Let me know,
Stephen