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  1. Bug #146918
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 146918

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era (era) wrote : Re: poor descriptions for some startup programs

This may seem like a feeble accomplishment, but I managed to find out what AT-SPI means, and so might be able to figure out what "AT-SPI Registry Wrapper" means.

According to http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/atk.php#coreclasses AT-SPI is "Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface" and there are also descriptions of the architecture etc.

Funny that an accessibility / usability component would make the mistake of having a name which is completely undecipherable to the uninitiated, and no description (as of 8.10).

/usr/lib/gnome-session/helpers/at-spi-registryd-wrapper and the corresponding /usr/share/gnome/autostart/at-spi-registryd-wrapper.desktop are in the gnome-session package, so marking as "New" for gnome-session (or should I Be Bold and mark as "Confirmed"?)

My proposed fix would be to add the English description "Framework for applications to interact with assistive technologies". I would be tempted to say "Gnome applications" or even "GTK+ applications" but ironically, the usability folks tend to shoot down anything which involves a technical acronym (but then the name field is barely anything but a technical acronym).