From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Would like complete at-spi functionality, as in gedit Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87mx6kq7d6.fsf@gmx.de> References: <23035153.1334020280719.JavaMail.root@elwamui-darkeyed.atl.sa.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334049098 17686 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2012 09:11:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Susan Cragin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 10 11:11:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SHX6u-0006wr-1u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:11:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39399 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHX6t-0005BV-B4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHX6m-0005BC-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHX6f-0005Mg-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:54452) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHX6f-0005MT-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2012 09:11:19 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB97DD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.151.221] by mail.gmx.net (mp069) with SMTP; 10 Apr 2012 11:11:19 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18y2q4Kwr8y+prE0KnLOAR/H+x/HhGqWs5OPjHP9X I6Dm6XP3pCo/x9 In-Reply-To: <23035153.1334020280719.JavaMail.root@elwamui-darkeyed.atl.sa.earthlink.net> (Susan Cragin's message of "Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:11:20 -0400 (GMT-04:00)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149557 Archived-At: Susan Cragin writes: >>>> I would like to have all at-spi functionality available in Emacs. > > This purports to give some. > http://delysid.org/atspi.el > > The developer, Mario Lang, sent me the following explanation. > atspi2.el is a client library for AT-SPI2 written in Emacs-Lisp. > It is meant to write a screen reader, or similar, > in Emacs Lisp. However, it does not do any toolkit bridge tasks, so > what you are looking for is not implemented/handled in atspi2.el. At least it could be a starter. However, it seems to be a little bit old; its copyright is from 2009, and it does not mention the "org.a11y.*" D-Bus interfaces from at-spi2. I will contact Mario about his future plans. Best regards, Michael.