Re: Request for comment (accessibility team): release date for GNOME 3.0

2009-11-09 Thread Steve Lee
2009/11/5 Willie Walker : > I think there's a few sides to this. And another is to expose CS students to the concepts so they take them forwards with them into industry experience. Steve ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list

Re: Request for comment (accessibility team): release date for GNOME 3.0

2009-11-09 Thread PiƱeiro
From: Francesco Fumanti > These two paragraphs make me wonder the following: > > - Is there any contact between the GNOME A11y Team and the GNOME Shell > developers? > > - Do the GNOME Shell developers know what properties have to be present > in the GNOME Shell to make it support a11y? As ap

Re: Request for comment (accessibility team): release date for GNOME 3.0

2009-11-07 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Francesco: - Is there any contact between the GNOME A11y Team and the GNOME Shell developers? Yes. - Do the GNOME Shell developers know what properties have to be present in the GNOME Shell to make it support a11y? As apparently, the GNOME Shell is still a moving target, the sooner the G

Re: Request for comment (accessibility team): release date for GNOME 3.0

2009-11-07 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hi, Willie Walker wrote: The final kicker for GNOME Shell is that it is an actively churning moving target. The ancient model that the a11y cleanup team will come in afterwards and resolve a11y issues cannot possibly work in this case. As with every project, I truly believe that accessible d

Re: Request for comment (accessibility team): release date for GNOME 3.0

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: In a nutshell -- IMO, GNOME 2.30 might be good enough to call a "Preview for GNOME 3.0", but nowhere near something we should call GNOME 3.0. We want GNOME 3.0 to be solid and sexy for everyone. GNOME 2.32 is probably the earliest we should shoot for. I might also suggest we create

Re: Request for comment (accessibility team): release date for GNOME 3.0

2009-11-03 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Vincent, I can't speak for other accessibility projects but I can give you a summary from the On-screen Keyboard point of view. The On-screen Keyboard effort currently consists of two projects: GOK [1] and Caribou [2]. For GOK, we are working on removing dependencies on deprecated libraries fo

Request for comment (accessibility team): release date for GNOME 3.0

2009-11-03 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, The release team is gathering comments from various teams to get a proper idea of which of March or September 2010 is more appropriate for the release of GNOME 3.0. The decision for the release date is following what we set in the 3.0 planning document [1]: we want 3.0 to be out in 2010, but w