Re: [orca-list] Update on Gwibber

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Gwibber would be nice.  I have to say though that Smuxi works a treat as 
a twitter client.  Very accessible

Alex M

On 5/17/2012 6:36 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 07:48:41AM EST, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Known:
> > * The caret visually moves now.
> > * They moved away from WebKitGtk to Gtk+
> The only time that webkit is used with the version of gwibber in oneiric and precise is authenticate twitter 
> et al.
>
> > * Orca does *not* yet present Gwibber content (I am looking into this)
> Flat review does work, but there needs to be some more work done on navigating the timeline with arrow keys, 
> as they create frames that display each post in the timeline. After talking to the upstream developers a 
> while back, in order to navigate using arrow keys, gwibber itself needs to be able to store the last unread 
> post on the timeline, which is not yet possible. Navigating by arrow keys shoudln't be too difficult to 
> implement, but extra atk magic may be needed to present the content from each timeline post in a way that is 
> easy to digest for the user.
>
> > Unknown:
> > * What the move away from WebKitGtk+ and to Gtk+ will mean for
> >    accessibility of Gwibber with Orca. If they used Gtk+'s HTML support
> >    (which presumably they did), things may be worse rather than better.
> >    Think Evolution.
> I am pretty sure they did not. They are using Vala + GTK for most of the UI now afaik.
>
> Luke
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