Re: [g-a-devel]Activate action for TreeView cell

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

Michael,

As there is not consensus on this issue, I have logged a bug 76628 about 
providing name for objects such as GailTextCell and GailLabel which implement 
AtkText.

Anybody who has an opinion can add their comments to the bug report.

Padraig

> Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]Activate action for TreeView cell
> To: "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>
> Cc: accessibility mailing list <gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org>
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> Hi Padraig,
> 
> On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 08:12, Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> > I made the change after the reply from Marc who was in favour of it. There 
is 
> > not a 'name changed' signal but there is a property called "accessible-name" 
for 
> > which a notify signal should be emitted when the name changes. I have not 
yet 
> > added the code to do that to gailtextcell.c but I will today.
> 
> 	I think that's a mistake - but I won't ramble on about it. Emitting two
> signals instead of 1 when a name changes is inefficient. There are loads
> of accessibles with NULL names, that could be set to other things - but
> if you're not actually exposing more information than the GtkText
> interfaces does then you're just creating confusion for ATs IMHO.
> 
> 	Having said that I just made Nautilus' file icons set their name to the
> filename [ but that's very static honest ! ;-].
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
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