Re: [g-a-devel] accessibility of new GTK+ features

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Li Yuan <Li Yuan sun com> wrote:

>>
>> Ok, I can explore that idea. Filed as
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581605
>> for now.
>>
>
> I think this is a good idea.

I had a look at it. Unfortunately, the entry icon api doesn't really
make this possible. We only have icon-press/icon-release signals, and
the menus, etc are all handled application-side.

The only thing I could come up with so far is a activate-icon
keybinding signal, that can be bound to various key combinations to
simulate icon-press and release events on the icons. This is really
not very nice. The patch I have attached to the bug does

Ctrl-Enter -> send icon-press/icon-release for button 1 on the primary icon
Ctrl-Shift-Enter-> send the same for button 1 on the secondary icon
Ctrl-Menu -> send icon-press/icon-release for button 3 on the primary icon
Ctrl-Shift-Menu -> send icon-press/icon-release for button 3 on the secondary
icon

The application code then needs to be careful to make the menu behave
well as a keyboard-triggered menu when the send_event flag in the
event is set. Ugly, ugly.


Matthias