[Development] Bug#874054: Setting QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1 has a huge negative performance impact, should not be always on

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:32:43AM +0200, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> I'm a bit split here, let's try to find some middle ground :)
> 
> I do think that we should always run with accessibility enabled

I don't.

Optional services should be opt-in, not opt-out.

Always.

Out of principle.


And no, I don't want to have keyboard and mouse events more
widely accessible then they necessarily are, completely
independent of whether there is theoretically or practical
an additional perceived or actual risk, or not.

> [...] The next thing is to make sure we don't actually send the
> keyboard and mouse events when not needed (pure insanity anyway, we
> should have a sound approach...). For the time being sending all of
> these events over dbus is the only way to make Orca happy [...]

Same for other creatures.

Andre'