Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

[Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra igalia com>]

El mié, 30-07-2008 a las 15:56 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo escribió:
> On 7/30/08, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 12:00 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> >  > Hi All:
> >  >
> >  > I recently had a nice discussion with the release team about the
> >  > viability of enabling accessibility (i.e., the AT-SPI infrastructure)
> >  > by
> >  > default for GNOME.  As a result of that discussion, I'm approaching
> >  > the
> >  > broader GNOME community with a proposal to do this.  :-)
> >
> >
> > I'd agree if you can show that there's little to no performance hit from
> >  enabling it. I'd go even further and say that we should not make it
> >  possible to disable it within the UI if you can show that it won't have
> >  adverse effects on most users (that don't need a11y...).
> >
> 
> I have froze my whole session by getting the at-spi stuff to crash.
> More concrete examples include eog not loading images anymore after
> crashing at.
> And I gotta say my crashes were random, happened in 2.20, 2.22.

That's  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547373

There's also this ugly emacs+metacity+a11y lock, that makes my computer
unusable. I think I hadn't noticed this before because I was using some
emacs snapshot, but now I switched laptops and haven't got the time to
compile it...

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392889


I haven't experienced more issues so far, but that's enough for me. I'm
disabling it.


Claudio

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