Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:00:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Lennart Borgman cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe In-Reply-To: <43556239.4050904@student.lu.se> Message-ID: References: <43555948 DOT 1020103 AT student DOT lu DOT se> <43556239 DOT 4050904 AT student DOT lu DOT se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Lennart Borgman wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Lennart Borgman wrote: > > > > > I read in the archives that there has been some discussions about > > > accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe. Are there any plans to improve > > > this? Keyboard support was not mentioned there but is also an > > > important accessibility feature for many people. Are there any plans > > > for keyboard support? > > > > > > > I don't believe anyone has voiced plans for adding accessibility features > > to the current implementation of the setup package chooser. There are a > > couple of people (including me) working (slowly) on re-implementing the > > chooser completely using standard Windows controls, which will support > > keyboard interaction, screen readers, etc, automatically. > > Igor > > Thanks, that sounds very nice. BTW are you using wxWidgets (which is > crossplatform and L-GPL) for this? No, I'm not planning to use wxWidgets. I'd rather not introduce any dependencies on non-standard libraries (i.e., libraries not likely to be already present on the user's machine). And linking statically will, IMO, unnecessarily bloat the executable. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/