Re: [orca-list] Icon Tray

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Jacob:

The icons in the notification area are different.

Will

Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi Will
> If the current GTK implementation doesn't support this, how do some of 
> the other panel icons expose their labels? For instance, the volume 
> control applet, the clock, and Ubuntu's fast user switch applet? What 
> makes panel icons different from any other icon that exposes an 
> accessible label? Are they using different applet routines to interact 
> with the panel?
>
>
> On Apr 3, 2009, at 09:30, Willie Walker wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave:
> >
> > I believe there's a comment and a request here:
> >
> > Comment: the icons in the panel just read as "icon".  Ideally, the 
> > application would provide the accessible name for the icon and Orca 
> > could expose it.  The current GTK+ toolkit implementation doesn't 
> > support this, and we're tracking this via 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547475.
> >
> > Request: allow users to define their own names for icons.  Orca 
> > currently doesn't do this and we don't have a feature request in our 
> > system for this right now.  If we were able to address the bug 
> > referenced above, would you still want this feature, and how high of a 
> > priority would you put on it?
> >
> > Will
> >
> >  Dave Hunt wrote:
> > > Hellol
> > > Is there a plan to include a labeling facility for items in the icon 
> > > tray?  For instance, the icons for power management, network 
> > > connection management and update management aplets just read as "icon".
> > > I'm using Orca 2.24.4 with Gnome 2.24.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave
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