Re: Updated proposal for making the GtkFileChooser code asynchronous

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 21:50 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 17:47 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>One thing that isn't clear to me, from my admittedly superficial reading 
> >>of the proposals, is how the need to notify clients of changes to the 
> >>file chooser list will be implemented. 
> >>
> >>For accessibility, we will need to fire notifications via ATK of all 
> >>changes to the file chooser list.  This means we need GtkFileChooser 
> >>signals to connect to here in libgail.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Kris's changes don't touch the widgetry at all.  They are all in the
> >backend.  GAIL will see whatever it is accustomed to see from the file
> >chooser's widgets.
> >  
> >
> GAIL is not used to the widgets having stuff added to the list 
> asynchronously.  Are you saying that this change will not cause the list 
> to be incrementally grown?

The gnome-vfs file chooser backend -- the one that is default in a GNOME
desktop -- already incrementally grows the file lists.

Regards,
						Owen