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Sun's ATK?
by Lee on Thursday 18/Dec/2003, @13:01

I thought ATK was a GNOME project. Guess not. But this IS the same ATK library that GNOME takes advantage of, right? So they'll be fully interoperable, as far as accessibility goes?

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Re: Sun's ATK?
by Waldo Bastian on Thursday 18/Dec/2003, @13:46

Yes, full interoperability is the goal here.

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Re: Sun's ATK?
by Harald Fernengel on Thursday 18/Dec/2003, @15:05

Well... every accessibility stuff was done by Sun, the mozilla MAI stuff, the OpenOffice accessibility integration, the Java Bridge, atk and at-spi. Okay, they host it in the gnome cvs, but all copyright headers reference Sun.

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Re: Sun's ATK?
by Lee on Friday 19/Dec/2003, @05:59

OH. That's a shame, actually. I was all proud of GNOME and the wider OpenSource movement for actually getting that whole thing done well. Still, at least it's done. And it's great to see KDE going a similar route. This stuff is important, and doesn't get enough attention! :D

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Re: Sun's ATK?
by Heini on Friday 19/Dec/2003, @13:29

I think public money shall be spent on it. this is work that has to be paid by the governments.

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Re: Sun's ATK?
by Ian Monroe on Friday 19/Dec/2003, @17:08

They do more or less. Some credit should go to the pressure that governments have exerted via their purchasing power. At least its an educated guess that ADA requirements and their counterparts outside the US was at least part of the incentive for development.

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Re: Sun's ATK?
by Sun/GNOME/ATK on Saturday 20/Dec/2003, @07:38

Done by Sun does not imply that it is not part of GNOME. Sun supports GNOME and is member of the GNOME Foundation. And they chose it as their new official desktop environment for Solaris. So, if they take part in developing GNOME, and developed ATK as their part in that development, ATK is part of GNOME.

The fact that it requires Glib should be another hint...

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Re: Sun's ATK?
by Anonymous on Saturday 20/Dec/2003, @08:19

> Sun supports GNOME and is member of the GNOME Foundation.

The GNOME foundation's bylaws doesn't allow a company to become a member.

> The fact that it requires Glib should be another hint.

So aRts is part of GNOME?

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