Re: Gnopernicus and Glade

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Hi John:

I look forward to perusing your website.  I am pretty excited about what
you are doing; certainly I welcome your focus on the development tools. 
I'll try to help wherever I can.

best regards,

Bill

> http://www.chpi.org/gnomebrl.html .
> 
> While i agree that your priorities for accessibility (Desktop and office 
> first) are good for general users, there is nothing to prevent me from 
> personally focusing on the accessibility of development tools. That is in 
> the spirit of Open Source.
> 
> John
> 
>  On 10 Apr 2003, Bill Haneman wrote:
> 
> > Hi John:
> > 
> > I have confirmed that gnopernicus and glade are "talking to one another"
> > when glade runs, and that the basic infrastructure for the accessibility
> > APIs is there.   I suppose that's a testament to the "built in" nature
> > of GNOME accessibility, since there has been no effort to date in
> > tweaking glade to make it really usable with gnopernicus; to be honest
> > it's pretty far down on the wish list.  Since it's a rather specialized
> > application glade will need that bit of tweaking (whereas a more
> > 'vanilla' gtk+ application might mostly work as-is).  I agree that a
> > fully accessible glade will be a significant milestone, but we've
> > prioritized the basic desktop and 'office' stuff before GUI developer
> > tools, generally.  Most of us GNOME developers use emacs more often than
> > glade :-)
> > 
> > That said, I am CC'ing glade's maintainer Damon Chaplin, who has been
> > very helpful in the past.  Perhaps it's not too soon to start adding
> > names to the nameless icons, adding tooltips (which would give us
> > accessible-descriptions), and doing a few tweaks to the canvas to make
> > it more fully accessible.  Also, I am not sure about the current state
> > of keyboard navigation for glade - Damon ?
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 04:46, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > In its present state, would Gnopernicus be of much help in working with 
> > > Glade? When it does work smoothly with Glade, it will have reached the 
> > > point of usability as far as I am concerned. Then I can use it to do some 
> > > serious programming for Gnome. Of course, it must also work with gedit, 
> > > nautilus, etc.
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
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