Re: Accessibility in GTK+ under Windows - a question to maintainers

[Evgeniy Philippov <egphilippov gmail com>]

В Срд, 18/04/2012 в 11:31 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz пишет:
> Please excuse my ignorance, but why would the *users* need to download
> and build anything? Why wouldn't GTK+ applications (eg. Pidgin) just
> ship with the accessibility bridge included with their installer?

Under the vague term `users', I mean users of a GTK build process. I.e.
I mean developers building the GTK for Windows. Of course.

If maintainers do agree to accept such practice (depicted below) into
GTK's life, I'd be happy to start hacking on that.

BR,
Evgeniy


> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM, egphilippov gmail com wrote:
> > Piñeiro,
> >
> > I did not yet study the GTK internals. What I would like---I'd like to
> > interlink GTK with UIA. How is should be best done is another
> > question.
> >
> > Mainly my question is:
> >
> > Do GTK's maintainers and do GTK's Windows port maintainers allow this:
> >
> > If an user wants GTK to support UIA, he would download Windows SDK
> > (WSDK) and build GTK against WSDK, namely GTK needs to be linked with
> > UIA headers and dll/lib libraries, to support UIA.
> >
> > So the maintainers---please do answer this.
> >
> > As this would extend GTK's user base to people with disabilities who
> > still need Windows, and is a good deed.
> >
> > BR,
> > Evgeniy
> >
> > On 19/04/2012, Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
> >> On 04/17/2012 01:50 PM, Evgeniy Philippov wrote:
> >>>
> >>> (I didn't yet research where my possible future UIA code goes to:
> >>> probably to ATK, but I didn't study yet.)
> >>
> >> Why on ATK? ATK is an accessibility abstraction like UIA. What do you
> >> want to add on ATK in relation to UIA?
> >>
> >> BR
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias
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