Re: [orca-list] [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT

This essentially means we must try things pretty early on and start 
reporting bugs agressively.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 07/24/2013 06:37 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Wonderful news!  I certainly feel better for it.  Thanks for all your hard
> work on qt-at-spi.
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> Alex M
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> From: Frederik Gladhorn [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:21 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Alex Midence; [email protected]; vinux-support-/[email protected];
> Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] Ubuntu Unity Desktop to go to Mir and QT
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> Hello,
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> On Tuesday 23. July 2013 13.23.47 Alex Midence wrote:
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>> Hi, all,
>> It looks like Ubuntu's Unity desktop will be switching to QT/QML in the
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>> future. It looks like they'll be using QT5. Does anyone know the current
>> state of accessibility for qt5 or QML? We were all disappointed to find
>> out that Unity 2d was discontinued in Ubuntu 12.04 and it is believed that
>> Ubuntu 14.04 would continue it's wonderfully accessible legacy. This was
>> supposed to soothe our ruffled feathers when 12.10 and 13.04 came out with
>> Unity 3d only which was not as accessible. Well, now, I am curious to know
>> if the timetable for that level of accessibility in a Ubuntu desktop will
>> need to be pushed back even more in light of this development. Please see
>> link below:
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> Qt 5 contains all the accessibility code that was used for Qt 4, including
> the plugin qt-at-spi which will then no longer be needed. Many things have
> also been improved since we learned from finally making Qt 4 accessible.
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> All in all this means that the Qt 5 based Unity should be able to reach the
> level of the old Unity and hopefully exceed it. Of course that's still up to
> the Unity developers and probably a fix here or there in Qt, but generally I
> would expect things to look good.
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> Greetings
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> Frederik
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>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/unity-next-project-announced
>> Regards,
>> Alex M
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