[arch-general] anyone interested in a multilib qt-at-spi package?

[kendell clark]

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hi all
 I'm not sure how to begin this, but here goes. In order for screen
readers, like orca, to be able to access applications written in qt4
(qt5 handles all of this built in}, it needs a package called
qt-at-spi. This is a bridge of sorts which links the qt accessibility
API's to the at-spi daemon which orca uses to read the screen. This is
in community, so this all works. However, there's an issue that's just
obscure enough that I'm not sure how to handle it. The issue arises
when 64 bit linux installations try to talk to 32 bit qt applications.
Since the qt at-spi bridge is 64 bit, it can't communicate with the 32
bit app, so orca cannot read it. THis makes applications such as
teamviewer and skype completely inaccessible on 64 bit systsms. I'm
not certain teamviewer is written in qt, but I do knos skype is. Ok,
ramble over. Is anyone interested in building a 32 bit version of the
qt-at-spi package and possibly throwing it in multilib? THis does not
need any maintenance, since this is only for qt4 applications, the
package has been deprecated since the code has been murged into qt5.
I've tried a few workarounds to no avail. I've tried downloading the
i686 package and trying to get pacman to install it, this didn't work.
I tried extracting the actual .so files out and placing them in lib32,
but I don't know enough about how the underlying system works to make
this work.
Thoughts?
Kendell clarK
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