Re: Status of gtkhtml(2)?

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman sun com>]

>Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM> writes: 
>> But gtkhtml1 is an accessibility nightmare.  If there is any
>> prospect of using gtkhtml2 in gnomecc instead then I would much
>> prefer it.  Otherwise us accessibility folks may end up having to
>> build an alternate based on gtkhtml2 anyway.
>
>Don't know - I would expect that adding editing to gtkhtml2, along
>with all the nice UI behavior and debugging done for gtkhtml1 during
>the Evolution release process, would be a boatload of work. Adding
>accessibility to gtkhtml1 may _also_ be a boatload of work, but to an
>outsider with no clue, it's not obvious which boatload is larger. ;-)
>There's also the issue of Pango and bidi and all that, which I guess
>is an edge to gtkhtml2.
>
>If Evolution doesn't move to gtkhtml2, don't you have to do
>accessibility for gtkhtml1 in any case? I guess Evolution won't be
>accessible until it ports to GTK 2 anyway, and who knows when that
>will happen...
>
>Sounds like you and Larry and Anders need to sit down and develop The
>Plan.

Yeah.

The most urgent need is for *some* kind of accessible HTML widget, and 
GtkHTML2 is the most tractable, given the current resourcing.  You're 
right, we (the Accessibility group) can't do anything with EVO until it 
starts using GAL-2.

In the meantime we need to display Gnome Help ...

-Bill

>Havoc

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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland