[g-a-devel] Review and freeze break request for Atk bug 630097 desired

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanied gnome org>]

Hey all.

It turns out that Gtk+ now includes one more value for text underlining
than Atk does. The impact of this bug [1] is that:

1. If a word in a Gtk+ text widget has the red, squiggly error underline

2. If an Orca user happens to have enabled the display of text 
   attributes in braille

Then the application which displayed the error will very likely crash as
soon as the Orca user moves focus into that widget.

This impacts at least Pidgin and OCRFeeder (which just added spell
checking support, ironically, as part of the Guadalinfo Accessible
projects). Needless to say, this is a bit of a drag.... 

I have attached a simple fix to the bug and tested that it eliminates
the crashes when using Orca, and that the correct attribute is indicated
via Accerciser.

Not being an Atk maintainer, I'm here to beg that the fix (or a similar
such solution) be committed, that freeze break be requested, and that --
if needed -- a corresponding change be made to Atk2.

Thanks guys!
--joanie

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630097