Pointer grabs causing accessibility issues! Why not deprecate

[Samuel Thibault]

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:
> > Hello Dan and Carsten,
> > 
> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > >>> In fact, the onscreen keyboard is usually already present on the screen, 
> > >>> but the clicks on it (that would produce the "virtual" keystrokes) do 
> > >>> not have any effect as the clicks do not get to the onscreen keyboard.
> > >>>
> > >> Isn't this exactly why the XEvIE extension was created?
> > > 
> > > now "why" it was created :) but if u really wanted to always get mouse events
> > > irrespective of who has grab - passive or active.. it can be used for this.
> > 
> > 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...

Samuel