Re: [g-a-devel] Panel Accessibility

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> It does seem that libgail-gnome was not being loaded. It wasn't even
> installed. How would a normal user know that this is the issue? 
Well, this is a bug in libgnome I guess, or whatever code is currently 
loading the accessibility modules.

My guess is that it regressed when the libgnome stuff was moved, recently.

> There
> is no dialog that pops up to tell the user. What is the recommended
> solution here, so that it just always works?
>   
We should fix the a11y loading code in gnome-program-init so that it 
warns the user if either a11y library is not found.
> Also, when the merger of GAIL into GTK+ happens, will libgail-gnome
> also be going away? Will the interesting bits be merged into libgnomeui
> or GTK+ itself?
>   
No; because libgail-gnome has too many dependencies (it's the glue that 
connects gtk+, bonobo, and at-spi together).  I suppose it could be 
rolled into libbonoboui but is also has a panel dependency; not sure the 
panel depends on libbonoboui ATM...

Bill
> -- dobey
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> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 23:02 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
>   
> > This should work already.  Are you sure libgail-gnome is getting loaded 
> > correctly in your setup?
> >
> > (If it has stopped working, it's a serious regression.)
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > Rodney Dawes wrote:
> >     
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > We want to get tests written in my test suite, so that we can check the
> > > panel applets for accessibility support as well. Unfortunately, it looks
> > > like the PanelApplet widget isn't sufficiently accessible to let us poke
> > > at the widgets it can contain. The clock should show up as a button, for
> > > example, but just shows up as an unnamed box widget instead.
> > >
> > > What's the best way to go about fixing this so that we can poke at the
> > > applets too?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > -- dobey
> > >       
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