[g-a-devel]extensivle accessibility modules.

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Bill,

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:
> If we go this route we need to be sure that the GTK_MODULES loading
> mechanism continues to work for GTK+ apps and that it does not clash
> with gnome_program_foo code.

	Clearly - that shouldn't be too difficult I think.

> I am dubious because I think that GTK+ apps (i.e. apps that don't use
> gnome-program) can use widgets that we need to add support for, so our
> extension mechanism probably should not be tied to g-p.

	Well - the problem is it needs to be adaptive to a great extent -
we can do that with gnome_program_ but not with anything else.

	Sure - anything that only has a gtk+ dependency needs to be in
gail - but I think other things - need to be dynamicaly loaded as needed.
Otherwise - we pull in lots of libraries we don't need every time we run a
gtk+ app eg. [libbonoboui, libgnomeui, eel, gal etc.] - of course - quite
correct, one can change GTK_MODULES to contain different things before
running each app - but this is a non-solution; which user knows he has to
edit an env-var to enter the deps of the program he's about to run :-)

	I think we should be looking at getting some g_module hooks into
gnome_program ASAP. Anders - I'll have a look at hacking this today; does
it sound ok to you ? Of course - the easiest solution for now is to pull
the gtkhtml2 API down the stack - to underneath gail - which seems all we
can do for the beta.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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