Re: [g-a-devel]Nautilus menu labels

[Mario Lang <mlang delysid org>]

Dave Camp <dave ximian com> writes:

> Hrm, that UI file is only be merged for the desktop window, not the
> normal windows.  Are you seeing this problem for all windows?
No.  I only observe it for the Desktop frame.  Adding label="File" and
so on makes the labels appear again, but I did not verify if this
activates shortcuts.

> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:19, Mario Lang wrote:
>> HI.  While poking around in AT-SPI I realized that Nautilus is the
>> only app I've found so far which has no names for it's menus.  Actual
>> menu-items and submenus are labeled, but the top menus aren't.
>> 
>> I now found that /usr/share/gnome-2.0/ui/nautilus-desktop-icon-view-ui.xml
>> is the reason for this, quoting the file:
>> 
>> <menu>
>>         <!-- By re-labelling these submenus to names without underscores, we
>>              prevent the user from bringing up the otherwise-invisible menu bar
>>              menus on the desktop from the keyboard. Setting the labels to "" in
>>              code does not work (presumably Bonobo bug), but doing so here does.
>>         -->
>>         <submenu name="File" label=""/>
>>         <submenu name="Edit" label=""/>
>>         <submenu name="View" label=""/>
>>         <submenu name="Go" label=""/>
>>         <submenu name="Bookmarks" label=""/>
>>         <submenu name="Profiler" label=""/>
>>         <submenu name="Help" label=""/>
>>         <submenu name="Preferences" label=""/>
>> </menu>
>> 
>> Now, this looks like bad behaviour from an accessibility standpoint to me.
>> 
>> First of all, isn't the comment wrong?  If the intention of this
>> piece of XML is to suppress shortcuts, shouldn't it just really define
>> the label without using _?
>> 
>> Like:
>> 
>>         <submenu name="File" label="File"/>
>> 
>> What do people suggest to deal with such a thing?  I am trying
>> to find my way around about how to help fix accessibility related bugs,
>> so a short intro on how to resolve such issues would be great. File a bug?
>> 
>> Or is this actually a valid way of doing things, and the assistive
>> technologies need to obtain menu labels other than calling
>> Accessible_getName?
>

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