Re: Keybindings ATK and JAVA

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> 
> Bill,
> 
> Your previous mail contained the statement
> 
> I think that our proposal for ATK is basically a superset of the Java keybinding
> API.
> 
> I put this together with the fact that the Java API exposes keybindings only for
> object selection and we expose keybindings only for actions.

Your logic is faultless :-)

I suppose that it is not too onerous to expose "select" as an action
on at least those GtkWidgets that have selection keybindings.  Maybe
you disagree.  But the Java keybinding API is weak in that it fails to
expose those keybindings that are associated with actions (and which
do not first result in a "selection").  This may be a difference in
the way Swing and GTK+ deal with keybindings - GTK+ has keybindings
that don't cause the "corresponding" UI element to be selected (e.g.
one-stroke keybindings rather than key-plus-Enter).

-Bill
 
> Padraig

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Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland