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List:       kde-accessibility
Subject:    Re: [Kde-accessibility] Proklam and KMouth
From:       Olaf Jan Schmidt <olaf () amen-online ! de>
Date:       2002-09-24 7:38:38
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Hi Pupeno,

you have convinced me that the plug-in mechanisms might be the best way to 
be dealing with interoperability issues in Proklam.

> > Do you know whether the core developers would have objections to
> > using these libraries if there are good reasons for using them?
>
> I don't think they'll have any objections... but then we have the
> problem of the definition of 'good resons' ;)

Well, interoperability of Proklam and gnome-speech is not enough of a 
reason. Support for Braille devices would be a good reason, but I don't 
see anyone working on this issue, so you should just ignore this idea.


> Am I wrong to think that there might be, in te future a KDE
> Accessibility API for KDE apps ?

Writing new accessibility framework for Qt/KDE or integrating support for 
AT-SPI into Qt/KDE would both be huge tasks which are not likely to be 
started in the near future. (Though I still have hope.)


> I don't understand why a plug in is not a general solution and how a
> general solution would be.

From what you wrote, I understood that the gnome-speech plug-in should be 
optional. This means that if I where to start KMouth on a computer 
configured for Gnome, it would not work until I downloaded and installed 
(and maybe configured) the optional compatibility plug-in.

But you could call this a distribution issue. All Proklam can do about 
this is using an installed gnome-speech plug-in by default if no other 
plug-ins are installed and configured.

Olaf.

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