[Mageia-dev] Switch from Corba to D-Bus based AT-SPI?

Mon Sep 12 16:20:11 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 12/09/11 10:09 did gyre and gimble:
+> While trying to test the new on-screen keyboard in GNOME 3.1, I noticed
+> that the Python module 'pyatspi' from at-spi 1.32 doesn't work with
+> caribou.
+> 
+> Problem in short: at-spi 1.32 is very old and its python bindings are
+> static and this won't work with any module which has been converted to
+> gobject introspection.
+> 
+> In Fedora as of GNOME 3.1+, D-Bus is used instead of Corba for at-spi.
+> 
+> They way they do this:
+> In at-spi 1.32, you can pass --enable-locate to rename the Python module
+> to pyatspi_corba.
+> Then there also is a separate "pyatspi" module (2.1.90); this one should
+> work together with Caribou. There are still other issues with Caribou
+> (still under development), but gets us at least closer to an on-screen
+> keyboard.
+> 
+> 
+> Can we make the same switch?
+> 
+> 
+> Note: not an expert on anything said above. Perhaps I missed some steps.
+
+I'm not sure any of us is an expert here, so you're the best we've got!
+I actually only imported Caribou recently to satify the deps but didn't
+have time to look into things properly like you are doing.
+
+As far as I'm concerned, you have carte blanche to make the necessary
+changes here!
+
+Col
+
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