Lubuntu and Accessibility

[Piñeiro]

On 06/06/2011 03:42 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> I seem to recall that Klaus Knopix is reputed to have had some success
> making LXDE accessible in his Knopix Adrienne distribution.   Perhaps
> that is something that could be used as reference?  As for
> python-related slowness in Orca, I would tend to agree.  C is just
> faster than Python.  Interpreted languages are going to require far
> more memory and resources than compiled ones in many cases.
>
> Actually, a saner thing would be an implementation of orca written in
> both C or c++ and Python.  The low-level code in c and the more
> scriptable areas in Python.

Although Frederik already mentioned that a proper profile is required, 
and that most of the performance problems on Linux are related with 
DBUS, I want to add some comments.

For what it worths, right now there are a running project in order to 
improve Orca performance:

https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Opportunities/OrcaPerformance

AFAIK, as part of this project, one thing to investigate is if it worth 
to move part of current Orca implementation to C in order to improve 
performance (as IMHO, a full C re-implementation doesn't worth it). 
Caribou recently did something similar.

BR

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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias (API) (apinheiro at igalia.com)