[BRLTTY] Broken colour names

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Nov 17 18:23:11 EST 2015


Mario Lang, on Tue 17 Nov 2015 22:11:15 +0100, wrote:
> When we originally planned to do it via SHM, D-Bus was not around.
> Is SHM still the best option?

It's *way* faster than any IPC.

> However, D-Bus has access control, and maybe we could make use of that
> to minimize potential security risks obviously exposed by such a patch.

Unix access control on the SHM should be fine enough.

> The libraries are a convenience, but it is perfectly
> possible to code a standalone AT-SPI client just by using a D-Bus
> binding.

Yes, but even a D-Bus binding is quite tedious to implement, compared to
just exposing the screen content in a SHM.

Samuel


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