Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

["Havoc Pennington" <hp pobox com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra igalia com> wrote:
> 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
>

The backtrace in that bug hints that a11y may be running a recursive
main loop inside gtk_widget_show(); I don't know if that's still true,
but if it is, imo turning on a11y would be unacceptable until it's
fixed. This is an inherently buggy and dangerous thing to do
*especially* in metacity but in every application really. It's a
Heisenbug extravaganza.

It's not like this is a new or unknown problem. See
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-September/msg00107.html
for an early mention that google turned up.

Havoc