On 04/25/2013 02:16 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote: > Hey folks, Hi Luke,
> In light of the gradual move to wayland, I am wondering what the plans are > WRT at-spi, specifically, dealing with keyboard snooping and Wayland input. > Last I heard from Alejandro, nothing was set in stone WRT wayland and input > related APIs for snooping. Funny that you ask this. On the last weekly a11y meeting I was present we talked about wayland. This reminds me that when we talk about that kind of things, it would be a good idea to send a email to gnome-accessibility-devel. Probably just to highlight the meeting minutes. Anyway, if you are curious about what we talked about. In short, there are still a lot of questions without a clear answer with respect of Wayland and accessibility, and we don't want to lag behind GNOME 3.10. So I have an action item assigned to myself, in order to write a mail to be sent to Wayland developers. You have more details on the minutes of that meeting [1]. I didn't write that mail yet because I was in a long vacation (one week and something), that was the same reason I couldn't attend this year gtk hackfest [2]. A pity, as the main wayland developer was there in order to help gtk folks. > As you probably know, Canonical has decided to write its own display server, > Mir.(1) From what I understand, parts of it will be similar to Wayland, but I > am not sure whether that will be the case for input APIs. > > Either way, I will have to start working on this once I have something from > our Mir devs to work with, so I was hoping that code could be shared, so far > as the backend of the at-spi registry daemon is concerned. Yes, we already knew about Mir, and good if in the end it will be similar to Wayland. Taking into account that X would be around for a while, as part of making at-spi2 compatible with Wayland, I guess that it will be required to provide a kind of "backend support" on at-spi2, so at-spi2 could support one and the other by providing "holes" that each backend would need to implement. If that is the final case, Mir compatibility would be "as easy" as Mir developers writing a kind of Mir backend for at-spi2. Anyway, take into account that at this point all this is a lot of guessing. We will know that better after we get more info from Wayland developers. Thanks for caring. Best regards. [1] https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Minutes/20130404 [2] https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GTK2013 -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
