Re: Panel Accessibility (long, but please read) [was Re: PanelStatus - GNOME 2.0]



Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> On 18 Nov 2001, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 17:35, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > > On 18 Nov 2001, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 18:49, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > You have already raised the spectre of a Gnome 2 without a panel (or one
> > > > > > that "doesn't work") - or was that just a rhetorical device?
> > > > >
> > > > > reality check: a lot of us don't consider a panel not fully "accessable"
> > > > > "broken" or "not working".
> > > > >
> > > > yes, but the panel (and all of gnome core) should be accessible, IMO.
> > > > And this should be considered something very important to have for GNOME
> > > > 2.0.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Welcome to the 'wants to send a lot of accessability related patches
> > > against gnome core' club.
> > >
> > thank you for admitting me, but, sorry, I would never belong to a club
> > that would admit me as a member :-)
> >
> > Seriously, I don't think I'll be able to make lots of patches for
> > accessibility, sorry, but I'll do it as soon as I find the opportunity
> > (= when I finish re-factoring GNOME-DB for GNOME 2 and start adding
> > accessibility support to it)
> >
> > The intention of my mail was to support a little bit Bill, since it
> > seems he is alone on these discussions :-) So, you won't have many
> > patches from me, unfortunately, but you'll have my support, if this
> > helps you some
> >
> 
> The problem is - it does not seem all that likely there willbe any
> accessability patches from anybody but the sun accessability folks, and
> thus its extremly unlikely that it will be in place for gnome core by 2.0
> even if it was considerably postponed.


sander, nothing personal, but sometimes your pessimism is a drag.

-Bill (formerly the most pessimistic person in Sun Ireland)

p.s. - you may be underestimating us :-)



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