Re: [g-a-devel] GTK and ATK

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

On 05/13/2011 04:47 PM, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Matthias Clasen
> <matthias clasen gmail com>  wrote:
> > I would argue that if all the widgets dealing with text really have
> > the same needs, they should really support the same interface in GTK+,
> > and there should be no need to write n adaptors for widget-with-text
> > to atktext, but instead just one for text-widget-interface to atktext.
> > And ideally, text-widget-interface and atktext would be so close to
> > each other that that would be trivial.
> Interestingly, there is a lot of use cases where people want to do
> stuff with text and an interface supporting it would help them
> greatly. Besides AtkText, spell checking, IM contexts and maybe even
> searching come to mind. If we could come up with an interface for Gtk
> that could satisfy all these needs without getting overly complex,
> that would be great.
And as I just added on my last mail, also a way to get the current
word or full sentence around the current cursor.

> (Ideally, this interface would have a default implementation that just
> maps to a PangoLayout very well, because that is what all text-related
> widgets in GTK use.)

And in clutter. One of the more important bugs right now on Cally
is the lack of a equivalent functionality provided by gail-text-util,
so AtkText implementation is missing. This was postponed as most
of current text representation on gnome-shell doesn't require it,
but it needs to be solved eventually.

And sincerely, I would like to avoid to re-implement that on clutter.
So it would be good to have something like a pangolayout based library
providing this functionality, in order to be used on both gail and cally.

BR

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