Re: [SEC508] FW: exceed environment

[Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>]

Hi Don,

> I'm forwarding the following message  to see if anyone has a positive 
> solution.
Perhaps you might forward this on to the poster of the question.

Given the contraints the poster put forth, their best option today would 
be to heavily script whatever is the least inaccessible PC-based X server. 
UNIX graphical accessibility is done entirely through supported 
programming interfaces for accessibility - think of MSAA only much 
richer, with no off-screen-model or other such hackery.  Today the GNOME 
libraries and desktop, the Java Swing library, StarOffice/OpenOffice, 
Mozilla, and Evolution provide these interfaces (with varying levels of 
completeness and bugs or lack thereof).  KDE is working on implementing 
this support, but they aren't there yet and won't be before KDE 4. 
I'm surprised to hear that your company feels the GNOME desktop is not 
secure.  Sun is in the process of building the next release of Trusted 
Solaris around GNOME.  Trusted Solaris has received the highest security 
clearance, and is used in the most secure installations in the U.S. 
government.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Archtiect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.


>  Hello,
>
> I have access character-based UNIX environments using the Tera Term
> (_http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html_) telnet 
> program from Microsoft Windows systems for several years.  However, 
> UNIX-based GUI-based applications are increasingly productive, and 
> difficult to compete with.
>
> For their UNIX work, my company is standardizing on Linux Redhat 9, 
> using the KDE desktop.
> At the moment, my company does not want individuals running Linux 
> Desktops on their own PC's.  They want to run the KDE desktop on 
> remote servers, and to have people access this environment through the 
> Exceed terminal emulator
>
> (_http://connectivity.hummingbird.com/home/connectivity.html?cks=y_) 
> program.
> My company thinks that Gnome desktop is not secure.  As far as GUI's 
> are concern, this setup does not seem to be accessible.
>
> I have had little luck Accessing Solaris 8 X-Windows applications 
> through Exceed.
>
>
> I am trying to get a transfer to the Microsoft Windows end of the 
> business.
>
> Questions
>
> 1. Has anyone successfully used Exceed with X-Window applications?
>
> 2. If I were able to persuade my company to allow me to use a Linux 
> Desktop,
> how would I go about setting up an accessible Linux Redhat 9 KDE X-Window
> system?  By listening to list-serves, I am aware that most of the
> accessibility work has been done for the Gnome desktop.
>
> Regards