From freedesktop-dbus  Thu Dec 13 10:27:57 2007
From: Rob Taylor <rob.taylor () codethink ! co ! uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:27:57 +0000
To: freedesktop-dbus
Subject: Re: ATSPI over D-Bus (was Re: [Accessibility] Re:
Message-Id: <4761092D.7000307 () codethink ! co ! uk>
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Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Rob Taylor wrote:
>>> Let's remember that DCOP was implemented in a very short period of
>>> time, and was dead simple - MUCH less complex than dbus is - and
>>> people used it heavily and successfully for lots of real
>>> functionality.
>> And KDE never wrote a sucessful accessibility framework with DCOP.
> 
> The way you phrase it, it seems like DCOP is responsible for it. It's not. 
> There was no accessibility framework like AT-SPI at all, nor any work to 
> create it AFAIK.
> 
> However, parts of an accessibility framework, including the text-to-speech 
> interface, were written and even used DCOP.


Sorry, I was a little tired when I wrote that! I simply mean that the
argument 'DCOP was sufficient for KDE' doesn't really apply in this case.

Thanks,
Rob

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