Re: [g-a-devel] Panel Accessibility

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 18:34 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> 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.

What is the bug exactly? Should I file it? Are you already fixing it?

> > 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...

Panel depends on bonoboui. Don't know if it should go there though. Is
it just a matter of parts of it needing to be split out and put into the
respective modules that they effect (bonoboui stuff in bonoboui, panel
stuff in panel, etc...)? If so, now is probably a good time to get that
done, so that we can have things Just Work (TM) more often in 2.18.

-- dobey