Re: libqaccessibilityclient

A few fixes went in and a tarball is created, so this will be out soon.

I decided on 0.3.0 as version.

Cheers,
Frederik

On tirsdag 6. november 2018 15:08:20 CET Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was just asked to make a new release of libqaccessibilityclient.
> I'm not sure if I'll get around to it any time soon, so I was wondering if
> anyone is interested.
> 
> Task: create a release - this means bumping the version number, doing a
> clean git export and some other small task. If anyone is willing to do
> this, I'll mentor happily. It's not very technical and should not take very
> long either. But since I'm generally busy I don't want to constantly be the
> blocker for all kinds of tasks. It's a nice way to get started.
> 
> 
> Now I guess you may wonder what this little gem is?
> It's a library to deal with accessibility information from the client point
> of view, such as Orca would. This means it can find which object has the
> focus and similar stuff. I don't think the architecture is the best it
> could be (it's doing a lot of synchronous dbus calls, so falls into the
> same traps as most of the stack), but it's a start at least.
> 
> When debugging accessibility issues it's nice at least, it contains a small
> app that is similar to accerciser (and broken in different ways :P ).
> Since I was looking at KWin I also added a small command line tool which
> simply dumps the entire tree of accessible objects of any application, the
> code is here: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16634 (waiting for review, maybe
> by Chrys).
> 
> Other uses are in KMag which can follow the keyboard focus with the
> magnifier that way. Maybe we should consider if that's desirable for the
> KWin effect also.
> 
> Simon (the speech recognition app) can use it as well to let the user speak
> various UI elements to trigger them.
> 
> Cheers,
> Frederik