CLI vs. GUI (was Re: linux and accessibility applications)

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Unfortunately, what you describe with MAC OS isn't quite the way X works.
If it did, there wouldn't be so many apps inaccessible with gnopernicus
even in this early stage. X has many toolkits (be they GTK+, QT, or
others). Applications written with these toolkits share characteristics
(one gtk+ app has similar aspects to another gtk+ app) but each toolkit is
different, with its own appearance and interface. Thus, if you run a
QT-based app in a GTK+ GNOME environment, it will look quite different
and, more important to us, won't be accessible. Currently only GTK+
version 2 is accessible with gnopernicus and, given the fact of just how
early gnopernicus is in its development, even that access must be
considered marginal at best. I wish X was the way you've described,
we'd've had access a long time ago if that were the case.

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Krister Ekstrom wrote:

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> Hi Jacob,
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> Thank you, thank you, thank you! Very, very well said and it
> coresponds exactly with my thoughts. Let me just add another thing:
> There are more ways than the windows way of handling the gui. I'm
> thinking about the Mac way, that at least up to system 7.5X was pretty
> standard and few applications left that standard which meant that
> Outspoken, (no matter how primitive that app was), could read and
> access most progs. I thought that X-windows worked along similar
> lines, but i could be wrong.