Pointer grabs causing accessibility issues! Why not deprecate

[Samuel Thibault]

Daniel Stone, le Tue 29 Apr 2008 16:06:12 +0300, a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:42:33PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Daniel Stone, le Tue 29 Apr 2008 15:33:42 +0300, a écrit :
> > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Francesco Fumanti wrote:
> > > > Thanks for telling me this. I will point the onscreen keyboard developer 
> > > > to it.
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > Please don't use XEvIE.  It's broken and maintainerless.
> > 
> > Eergl. Could we rather say "Please take maintainership of XEvIE"
> > instead?  We definitely need things like XEvIE for accessibility...
> 
> Why? You're just punting the problem a little further along, until which
> point we create another extend to allow you to wrap above XEvIE, just as
> XEvIE allows you to wrap above grabs.
> 
> Instead, it'd be awesome to solve the problem of PolicyKit not trusting
> any external processes/windows, yet still needing input that will
> occasionally require assistance from external processes/windows.  Solve
> that and you're sorted.

Then could you help us convince them? ;)

Samuel