On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 03:56:30PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> writes: > > > For next month, we will release a full list of features we found in > > Jaws, NVDA, ZoomText and SuperNova and not present in Orca and Linux, > > so that users could tell us whet should be prioritary to be > > developped. On this basis, we'll submit patches to upstream teams in > > order to add features, including technical discussions with you about > > the good approach (what is for Orca, for at-spi, for the application, > > etc). Now we've the basic platform, we can start developping > > improvements and submitting them. And we're going to re-open the issue > > of packaging some useful tools such as Compiz. > > Nice to hear this. I am looking forward to seeing your comparative > assessment of missing features, and especially looking forward to seeing > Hypra-written patches appear in various upstream repositories. So do I. > > While reading this, I can not help to notice that this plan only seems > to have new stuff on its plate. I wonder if you also plan to work on > existing kinks/bugs in the current system. Yes indeed, we do aim on fixing everything! well of course we made some choices. > > And I truly hope your choice of Compiz is not going to add to the > fragmentation we already have. I have always been a strong proponent of > supporting systems that are used by "everyone else". I guess Compiz is > far away from being a "ghetto system", but I still wonder. If it were > that widespread, it would have more support by developers, and probably > wouldn't have fallen out of Debian in the first place. indeed, and that is a choice that i regularly question. Not using compiz poses others problems, that might be tough to address, like standardizing an interface for all compositors to plug onto. I'd like to have more input on this subject. > > In any case, I wish you all the best for your project. > I am certainly happy that you decided to choose Debian as a base system > for your work on Accessibility. Who else? -- Ksamak hypra.fr Team
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