Re: [g-a-devel] [gdm-list] What's the Status of Audio in GDM?

2008-05-06 Thread George Kraft
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:21 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Matthias: > > >> Perhaps someone could start a wiki at http://live.gnome.org/GAP/gestures > >> and create three columns of what to start which which gestures. For > >> example: > >> > >> = >

Re: [g-a-devel] [gdm-list] What's the Status of Audio in GDM?

2008-05-06 Thread George Kraft
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 15:52 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:34 -0500, George Kraft wrote: > > > > > Perhaps someone could start a wiki at > http://live.gnome.org/GAP/gestures > > and create three columns of what to start which which

[g-a-devel] Bug 387973 - add keybinding to start the visual assistive technology (metacity)

2008-05-06 Thread George Kraft
FYI, bug 387973 proposes to enable Metacity to start gnome-at-visual when the user types s. If you have other input, then please comment in the bug. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387973 If you want to manually configure your Metacity, then you can type the following at shell prompt:

Re: [g-a-devel] [gdm-list] What's the Status of Audio in GDM?

2008-05-05 Thread George Kraft
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 13:17 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Matthias: > > I'm cc:ing the gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list since they > are probably the right people to include in this discussion . I am > also cc:ing George Kraft since I have spoken with him in the pas

Re: [g-a-devel] Overview of DBus ATSPI design

2008-01-08 Thread George Kraft
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 19:55 +0100, Olaf Schmidt wrote: > For authentication, Bill Haneman suggested to reuse the solution > written for CORBA/AT-SPI. Do I remember it correctly that an ID is > passed via XAtom? > > If someone with knowledge of the CORBA/AT-SPI implementation details > can explain

Re: [g-a-devel] [Accessibility] Re: [Kde-accessibility] [Accessibility-atspi] D-Bus AT-SPI - The way forward

2007-12-10 Thread George Kraft
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 14:44 +0100, Olaf Schmidt wrote: > We quickly found that it is possible to simply reuse the existing > authentification methods used by CORBA. Would it make sense to get performance numbers for local and networked AT-SPI over Orbit2 versus D-Bus?Does setting $HOME/.xorb

Re: [g-a-devel] [Accessibility-atspi] D-Bus AT-SPI - The way forward

2007-12-06 Thread George Kraft
> D-Bus case all connections made are using local unix sockets. How will a D-Bus version of AT-SPI handle sudo (local non $USER owned applications displaying to $DISPLAY) and remote applications ($USER and non $USER owned applications displaying to $DISPLAY) work? George (gk4)

[g-a-devel] AT-SPI D-Bus investigation

2007-11-26 Thread George Kraft
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2007-November/msg00020.html How are your Orbit2 results impacted if your $HOME/.orbitrc has set the following? ORBIIOPIPv4=1 ORBLocalOnly=1 -- George (gk4) ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel maili

Re: [g-a-devel] At-spi registery daemon.

2007-11-05 Thread George Kraft
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 23:25 +0100, Francesco Fumanti wrote: > At 1:08 AM +0300 11/3/07, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote: > > > OK. So what's the proper way (command line arguments) of starting the > >> registry from a command line or ~/.xsession? > > > >Something like > > > >export GTK_MODULES=gail:li

Re: [g-a-devel] At-spi registery daemon.

2007-11-05 Thread George Kraft
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:03 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote: > How about when one doesn't use GNOME desktop? at-spi-registryd should > still run in order to make the accessibility infrastructure work, > shouldn't it? I'm curious as to which other desktop you might be trying and if you are introducing

Re: [g-a-devel] gnome-accessibility makes some apps unusable

2007-05-29 Thread George Kraft IV
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 07:53 +, Halim Sahin wrote: > Hi, > > Some apps don't start if accessibility is enabled in gnome. > This happend to linphone which was accessible in the past. > > The errormessage is: > GTK Accessibility Module initialized > > GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only b

Re: [g-a-devel] ATK and windows

2007-05-03 Thread George Kraft IV
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:04 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: >> The current AT-SPI architecture with its CORBA dependency >> cannot be used by Qt applications for various technical reasons > > My understanding is that it's not technical, but more philosophical. Indeed. On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 18:10 +0

Re: [g-a-devel] Google search for AT-SPI leads to wrong docs

2007-05-01 Thread George Kraft IV
Thanks Aaron for pointing that out. Yes, we would like to deprecate the libcspi APIs, because it is not being maintained. Everyone should directly use libspi for AT-SPI programming with the C language. Those documents are referenced via GAP's Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/GAP New for Python progr

Re: [g-a-devel] Google search for AT-SPI leads to wrong docs

2007-05-01 Thread George Kraft IV
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/ -- George (gk4) ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] add keybinding to start the user's preferred visual assistive technology

2007-04-10 Thread George Kraft IV
If there is no assistive technology currently running and a blind or low vision user would like to get one up and running, then currently he/she would need to press "" then without feedback type in the screen reader's command and arguments. I'm proposing to add "s" for Metacity to run the new "gno

[g-a-devel] add keybinding to start the user's preferred visual assistive technology

2007-04-05 Thread George Kraft IV
I would like to propose adding a GNOME (metacity) keybinding such as "s" to start the user's preferred visual assistive technology. http://live.gnome.org/GAP/ScratchPad/PreferredApplications http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387973 What key sequence would work the best and not conflict o

[g-a-devel] Bug 350263 - AT selection migration to Preferred Applications (control-center)

2007-02-02 Thread George Kraft IV
Bill, How would you like me to resolve the issue mentioned in comment #54? Will other preferences be added to gnome-at-properties in the near future? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350263#c54 http://live.gnome.org/GAP/ScratchPad/PreferredApplications Thanks, -- George (gk4) _

[g-a-devel] Preferred Applications

2007-01-25 Thread George Kraft IV
Feature 350263 (Preferred Applications) did not make the cut off for GNOME 2.18, so 386411 will need to be backed out to reinstate the launching of the hard coded ATs; otherwise, GNOME 2.17 is broken. http://live.gnome.org/GAP/ScratchPad/PreferredApplications http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cg

Re: [g-a-devel] accessibility enhancement need attention

2007-01-11 Thread George Kraft IV
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:07 +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote: > ons, 10.01.2007 kl. 13.06 -0600, skrev George Kraft IV: > > The accessibility enhancement for Preferred Applications as discussed at > > the GNOME Summit in Boston is code complete, but it is only half way > > checked

[g-a-devel] accessibility enhancement need attention

2007-01-10 Thread George Kraft IV
The accessibility enhancement for Preferred Applications as discussed at the GNOME Summit in Boston is code complete, but it is only half way checked in. The rest of the bugs listed in the below referenced wiki need to be committed, or the two commits already done need to be backed out. I need ad

Re: [g-a-devel] Accessibility in Preferred Applications

2006-12-07 Thread George Kraft IV
Regarding the controversy over my proposed "other" category of selectable assistive technologies, it was suggested to me to rename "on screen keyboard" to "mobility" and to pull dasher into that category. If this is acceptable, then I would like to do this to eliminate the "other" selection list.

Re: [g-a-devel] Flexible multiple AT app configuration

2006-12-05 Thread George Kraft IV
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2006-December/msg00026.html I'm including gnome-accessibility-devel and gnomecc-list, because that is where I first posted about my work on Preferred Applications for gnome bug 350263. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] Accessibility in Preferred Applications

2006-12-01 Thread George Kraft IV
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:49 -0200, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote: > > I don't think that the *Magnifier* option must be removed. I only > think > that gnome-mag can't be presented in it, since it is not a stand alone > magnifier like kmag or others! I had the impression that standalone

Re: [g-a-devel] Accessibility in Preferred Applications

2006-12-01 Thread George Kraft IV
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:33 +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > George, could we also add a direct launch button for each of these > apps? 'Launch now'. We will likely need to add that feature in Ubuntu > because we prefer to remove the pre-installed applications from the > Applications menu. I thi

Re: [g-a-devel] Accessibility in Preferred Applications

2006-12-01 Thread George Kraft IV
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 20:52 -0200, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote: > It's really desirable to have gnome-mag listed in the Magnifier option? > gnome-mag was not designed to be runned stand-alone and doing so could > make the user have the perception that the application is buggy. I think

Re: [g-a-devel] window composite managers and gnome-mag

2006-12-01 Thread George Kraft IV
Ideally, I would think magnification needs to be in-process to a compositing window manager via a plugin. Is there a composite manager plugin standard? George (gk4) ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://

[g-a-devel] Accessibility in Preferred Applications

2006-11-30 Thread George Kraft IV
Greetings, At the GNOME Summit in Boston, the GNOME Accessibility group discussed moving the bulk of accessibility configuration from Assistive Technology Preferences to Preferred Applications. Referenced below is my effort to do this work. http://www.cactus.org/~gk4/gnome/prefapps.png http://b

[g-a-devel] autostart desktop files

2006-10-11 Thread George Kraft
At the GNOME Accessibility Summit in Boston, the question was asked how to autostart .desktop files. Here are my notes that I promised to forward. "The GNOME 2.14 offers a way for developers to register their applications to be started up automatically when GNOME starts. To do this, you only nee

Re: [g-a-devel] building and running gnome-mag with xcomposite enhancements

2006-09-19 Thread George Kraft
Carlos, That did the trick. I'm able to run the xcomposite enhanced gnome-mag in full screen or split screen mode without using a "dummy" Xserver. On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 20:22 -0300, Carlos wrote: > > Take a look at the gnome-mag CLI with the --help option. It's probably > happening because you

[g-a-devel] building and running gnome-mag with xcomposite enhancements

2006-09-11 Thread George Kraft
I'm having difficulties building and running gnome-mag with the new xcomposite enhancements. I have done the following: export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/gnome cvs checkout gnome-mag cd gnome-mag firefox http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348375 cp ~/gmag-events.[ch] magnifier

[g-a-devel] gnome-mag with composite support

2006-09-01 Thread George Kraft
Carlos, I've downloaded your enhanced gnome-mag with composite and have built it; however, when I run "magnifier --fullscreen", then all I get is a blank screen with the occasional cross-hairs. What should I be seeing? http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2006-August/msg00031

[g-a-devel] Bug 204150: audio permissions are wrong for accessible login

2006-09-01 Thread George Kraft
Does anyone have a better solution to enable audio for accessible login? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204150 http://live.gnome.org/LSR/AccessibleLogin George (gk4) ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility

[g-a-devel] experimenting with metacity magnification

2006-08-08 Thread George Kraft
For those of you interested in experimenting with metacity's magnification. Here is a script to enable and disable it. metacity-mag-config [ start | stop | toggle | help-fedora | setup- fedora | help-magnifier ] http://accessibility.freestandards.org/~gk4/a11y/metacity-mag-config "metac

[g-a-devel] AT-SPI and D-Bus

2006-08-03 Thread George Kraft
http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2006-August/002721.html Is there a Gnome migration plan to a DBUS based at-spi-registryd? -- George (gk4) ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.

Re: [g-a-devel] gnome-mag, full screen magnication and composite

2006-06-27 Thread George Kraft
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:45 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > I don't see why we have to emulate all those window-manager-like features > just to use Composite. When I looked at this (well over a year ago), > it seemed to me that we only needed to add magnification logic > to a simple compositing ma

Re: [g-a-devel] gnome-mag, full screen magnication and composite

2006-06-20 Thread George Kraft
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:55 -0300, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote: > There is anyone that is working on this type of support in metacity? > There is any documenation/discussion about magnification support in > the compositing window manager? Soren has stubbed in magnification into metacit

Re: [g-a-devel] Ubiquity - Not fully accessible.

2006-05-03 Thread George Kraft
I believe the following is the solution to your problem: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163132 We also believe this may fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189610 We have a patch we are debugging, then will post to 163132. -- George (gk4) ___

Re: [g-a-devel] Smoothing algorithms in gnome-mag

2006-05-03 Thread George Kraft
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 13:33 +0200, Juan Ramon Jimenez Garcia wrote: > I need to know if i can probe with more algorithms > in order to get a good (a better) smoothing with the magnifier. XFilters *filters = XRenderQueryFilters(my->display, my->id); if (NULL == filters) { fprintf(stderr, "Unabl

[g-a-devel] python ibmtts

2006-04-06 Thread George Kraft
FYI, we have added python bindings for IBM TTS. The new package that is built from the source is called pyibmtts-6.7.4-1.i386.rpm http://ibmtts-sdk.sourceforge.net/ -- George (gk4) ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel

Re: [g-a-devel] Re: Bonobo - Accessibility Technology Distributed Arch.

2006-03-21 Thread George Kraft
> > I'm struck with two questions here... > > > > 1. Bonobo AF(Activation Framework) is responsible to activate > > AT-SPID, currently does the bonobo AF has the capability to > > Activate the AT-SPId on remote m/c. > > > > if yes,

Re: [g-a-devel] Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-07 Thread George Kraft
While you are on the topic of GTK_MODULE, is it still considered a security hole for setuid Gtk+ programs? What makes Linux control panels secure or insecure with respect to Gtk? http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2001010300804SCGN George (gk4) ___

[g-a-devel] AtkStateSet

2005-11-07 Thread George Kraft
I've been staring at AtkStateSet. To me it seems similar yet different than AtkRelationSet. In /usr/include/atk-1.0/atk/atkstateset.h I was expecting to see _AtkStateSet to declare/hold the state similar to how _AtkRelationSet declares/holds the relations. Also the AtkStateSet and AtkState docum

[g-a-devel] OO.o / new a11y bridge ...

2005-10-14 Thread George Kraft
Oliver, Last April there were some good things said about Meeks' direct atk bridge for OO. Has any work been done to incorporate it? Could a bugzilla bug be created to track this? http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2005-April/msg00023.html Thanks, George (gk4)

Re: [g-a-devel] gnome-speech driver parameters

2005-10-04 Thread George Kraft
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 22:54 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > George Kraft wrote: > > >The GNOME_Speech_Speaker.idl is able to set _voice_ parameters for > >volume, rate, breathiness, roughness, pitch fluctuation, pitch, head > >size, and gender. > &

[g-a-devel] gnome-speech driver parameters

2005-10-03 Thread George Kraft
iption (in string name, in double value); + double getParameterValue (in string name); + boolean setParameterValue (in string name, in double value); + }; }; }; -- George Kraft IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Senior Software Engineer SWG Linux Accessibili

[g-a-devel] RPM groups for accessibility

2005-09-12 Thread George Kraft
I would like to ask for guidance and help regarding RPM groups for accessibility on Fedora. It appears the groupings are inconsistent and incomplete. Fixing this now will help Red Hat and the other Linux distributions. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131460 It would be nice

[g-a-devel] Desktop Accessibility Guide update for Gnome 2.10

2005-06-15 Thread George Kraft
Will there be a Desktop Accessibility Guide update for Gnome 2.10? http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.8/ George (gk4) ___ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-access

Re: [g-a-devel] CVS logs

2005-04-18 Thread George Kraft
Thanks. I guess I will need to setup some filtering to weed out what I want. :-) Best regards, George (gk4) On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 19:03 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > George Kraft wrote: > > >Are there per gnome module cvs-log email distribution lists to monitor >

[g-a-devel] CVS logs

2005-04-18 Thread George Kraft
Are there per gnome module cvs-log email distribution lists to monitor source changes? http://sourceforge.net/projects/cvs-syncmail/ http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/cvsspam/ I did not see anything in the mailman lists at gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ -- George (g