Re: Unity Update

[Fernando Herrera <fherrera onirica com>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
>> How about "Are there any a11y implications in the plan to move
>> Unity from X11 to Wayland?"   (I really have no idea if Wayland
>> provides any of the underlying infrastructure needed or not.)
>
> Taking into account that right now there are no a11y infrastructure on
> Unity, I guess that no ;)
>
> Forgetting the jokes, using my experience on Cally (Clutter ATK
> implementation): In general most of the implementation of ATK methods
> doesn't depends of these lower layers. But, it is true that some
> methods of Cally depends on X, specifically some methods of
> AtkComponent related to get the absolute position of a actor on the
> screen. That means that right now only the GLX backend work fine with
> these methods, as I had to time to check other backends. AFAIK there
> are a recent Wayland backend on Clutter, so this method will not work
> properly here.

Also the a11y bus discovery in GNOME 3 is done via xprop IIRC.

Salu2